Small skills need to be learned too
While conducting a workshop this week one participant shared a key learning with others in the group. She described it this way:
“I had been wishing that members of my team would add their own items to the staff meeting agenda, and I have realized that this is something that staff need to learn how to do.
I realized that I was taking it for granted that people know they can put items up for discussion and that they know how to identify what an item might be.
This made me realize that the team probably believes that I ‘own’ the agenda, because I am the leader. Helping staff members to begin putting agenda items up each week, cannot be achieved by simply wishing they will do it, or even just telling them it’s OK to add items. So – we are now running an item in the staff meeting about the kinds of things people might like to add, and the methods for adding them. The door has opened – both for me and for them.”
A very useful insight.
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