Are you suffering from Functional Fixedness about your role and position? Functional fixedness is a cognitive bias that impacts an individual’s ability to be creative. When we discuss functional fixedness we normally associate it with how an object may be used. Duncker’s candle problem is often used to demonstrate this bias. The problem is presented as follows: You […]
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Followership tip of the week – use Rogerian Rhetoric to demonstrate Radical Listening How does it work? Instead of immediately advocating your position or trying to refute someone else’s position, you must state the OTHER’S position in such a manner as is ACCEPTABLE TO THEM. Want to ratchet it up a notch? Engage Rapoport’s rules:
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“Do unto others as you would have them do to you.” Let’s break that down for a moment. Do to others – take actions that will impact another person.As you would have them do to you – in a way that you would want to be treated. At first glance this seems logical. Only…well, it
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Learning about Flow can help you and your team get into flow! “We pay the most attention to the task at hand when the callange of that task is slightly exceeds our skillset.” That means followers should LET THERE LEADERS KNOW the limits of their comfort zone. That way leaders can challenge their followers and
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💩 happens. How we respond matters. As a follower you have two real choices. 1. point out leadership’s mistakes and errors. 2. Show how improvement is possible. When the 💩 hits the fan and a decision goes off the rails how are you going to respond? “I told you this was a bad idea!” –
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#Followership tip of the week: Write out your “How to work with me” Manual. GIVE IT TO YOUR LEADER and ask to have a one on one about it. It can include: Remove the burden of discovering how best to work with you from your leader and team. Express your needs and let everyone know what
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