Getting Better (at getting better)

Getting BetterEmily’s LabshareOct. 9, 2015

QUOTE

Do I contradict myself?Very well then, I contradict myself.(I am large. I contain multitudes.)

-- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself

Do we believe we can change?

(like, on purpose)

The answer is yes!

YES, we can change...

We believe we can improve over time

⊡ Project retrospectives

⊡ Team offsites

⊡ Annual goals

Do we know how to change?

The answer is yes.

YES!

We know how to support change

⊡ 1:1 Meetings

⊡ Annual Review process

⊡ Company & team-wide offsites

⊡ Encouraging, supportive culture

Change is hard.How could we get better at it?

Let’s get betterat getting better.

“How the Way We Talk Can Change

the Way We Work”by Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey

HEADS UP

STEP 1

What change would positively impact your professional growth?

STEP 1

I need moretime

What change would positively impact your professional growth?

STEP 2

I need moretime

Reframe Step 1 as “I am committed to the value of …”

STEP 2

I need moretime

Do great work

Reframe Step 1 as “I am committed to the value of …”

STEP 3

I need moretime

Do great work

What do you do that gets in the way of Step 2?

STEP 3

I need moretime

Do great work

I don’t push back

What do you do that gets in the way of Step 2?

STEP 4

I need moretime

Do great work

I don’t push back

What else are you committed to?

STEP 4

I need moretime

Do great work

I don’t push back

Don’t rock the

boat

What else are you committed to?

TENSION

I need moretime

I don’t push back

Do great work

Don’t rock the

boat

TENSION

I need moretime

I don’t push back

Do great work

Don’t rock the

boat

you contain multitudes!

TENSION v.2

I need moretime

Do great work

Dis-trac-tions!

TENSION v.2

I need moretime

Dis-trac-tions!

Do great work

Be in the

know

you contain multitudes

TENSION v.3

I need moretime

Do great work

I say yes to all

things

TENSION v.3

I need moretime

I say yes to all

things

Do great work

Be in demand

you contain multitudes

Don’t rock the

boat

DOOMED

I need moretime

Do great work

I don’t push back

ANOTHER EXAMPLE

Creative partner

ANOTHER EXAMPLE

Creative partner

Collab. problem- solving

ANOTHER EXAMPLE

Creative partner

Collab. problem- solving

I don’t seek out partners

ANOTHER EXAMPLE

Creative partner

Collab. problem- solving

I don’t seek out partners

Defer to others’

preference

ANOTHER EXAMPLE

Creative partner

I don’t seek out partners

Collab. problem- solving

Defer to others’

preference

Change is hard.How could we get better at it?

Let’s get betterat getting better.

The End

Reactions?thoughts?

feelings?goals?

EXAMPLE NO. 3

Swift decisions

were made

I roll with it.

Efficiency and order

Confident, relaxed

reputation