how does the culture you work in handle an employees mistakes? often you hear people talk about learning from their failures or how a mistake propelled them to make the necessary change so they didn't miss the target again. this all feels pretty individualistic and many years removed from real time.
what if each time you made a mistake, everyone on your team was privy to know and learn? what if at your weekly team meetings you could spend five minutes and talk openly about your mistakes or failures? what could this do for those leaders underneath you? one of the things that frustrates me most is when i watch a leader make a mistake and choose to be selfish by holding that in only to watch a young emerging leader follow suit a couple weeks later. when this happens an unhealthy culture is born.
if you have a chance, why not try this week to spend 15 minutes minutes asking your team to highlight the biggest success and biggest mistake made so far in the fall semester. i'd love to hear how it goes.
Comments