Encouraging Initiative
- Be tolerant of failure: support people on their mistakes
- Seeking different perspectives when solving problems
- Suggesting new ways of completing assignments
Check Lists
- PI in place for every team member, and updated every 6 month - will allow you to know better your team
- Development group and also individual meetings with employees (PDPs) - explaining and sharing the strategy, goals, vision, OKRs - Check-In Conversations
- Be part of the Top Leader Program (ELT)
- Work in Certified Coaching Programs, and also in partnership with Human Resources Business Partner
- Storytelling Techniques will help you engaging and mentoring your team
- Create and promote webinars between Managers to share knowledge and best practices - Live it! is one channel, e.g; through Zoom or other platforms
- OKRs/Goals based on company needs, agreed with employees
- Design Thinking Model - Participlan will challenge your thinking (and from your team) on how you structure and deliver content, to influence better results from these communication opportunities
- Remember and Respect the Delegation Dial
Templates
Deletagion Dial
One of the challenges of delegation is that it often gets boiled down to the boilerplate, “Delegate and elevate.” This is one of those management quips that makes complete sense when one hears it, but leaves a new manager wondering, How in the world do I do that?
Check-In Conversations
These discussion guides are intended to help provide a format and talking points for employees and people managers during Check-ins. The guides are organized by the three steps of Check-in: Expectations, Feedback and Development and provide suggestions for how to have an effective discussion. They are not intended to be a script, but to provide guidelines to prepare employees and people managers before, during and after the Check-in conversation.
Golden Circle
There are few leaders who choose to inspire rather than manipulate in order to motivate people. Whether individuals or organisations, all these inspiring leaders think, act and communicate in exactly the same way. And it’s the complete opposite of the rest of us. Consciously or not, how they do it is by following a naturally occurring pattern that Simon Sinek calls The Golden Circle.
Guiding Questions
Ask Yourself:
- What are your strongest motivators to come to work everyday?
- Are you providing the conditions for encouraging initiative?
- Are you looking for a way to equip employees with the self - insight, knowledge, skills and tools they can apply the very next day, to drive initiative?
- Do you behave in a consistent and impactful way that drives a culture and encourages initiative?
- Do you feel capable to overcome challenges to encourage initiative (e.g., risk aversion, failure to produce ideas)?
- Do you take a strategic approach to develop and encourage initiative?
- Are our leaders a positive model when it comes to encouraging initiative, or do they fail to use new approaches themselves?
Ask Your Team:
- What are your strongest motivators to come to work everyday?
- Do You Feel Like Your Organization Encourages You To Give Your Opinion?
- Do You Think That Your Peers Welcome Opinions That Are Different From Their Own?
- Do team members fail to take ownership for their particular role and responsibilities on the team?
- Do you know what resources they need and how to acquire them to be more proactive?
Books
Influencer
Whether you're a CEO, a parent, or merely a person who wants to make a difference, you probably wish you had more influence with the people in your life. But most of us stop trying to make change happen because we believe it is too difficult, if not impossible. We learn to cope rather than learning to influence.
Crucial Conversations
When stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong, you have three choices: Avoid a crucial conversation and suffer the consequences; handle the conversation badly and suffer the consequences; or read Crucial Conversations and discover how to communicate best when it matters most. Crucial Conversations gives you the tools you need to step up to life's most difficult and important conversations, say what's on your mind, and achieve the positive resolutions you want.
Talks
How Diversity Makes Your Team More Innovative
Are diverse companies really more innovative? Rocío Lorenzo and her team surveyed 171 companies to find out -- and the answer was a clear yes. In a talk that will help you build a better, more robust company, Lorenzo dives into the data and explains how your company can start producing fresher, more creative ideas by treating diversity as a competitive advantage.