When it comes to assessments, there are two critical skills to master. One is to ground assessments methodically and the other is to avoid the “big collapse.”
Grounding assessments is critical when you are making decisions that affect your organization and your relationships. Separating your interpretations from the facts is also a critical skill when making decisions and when coaching someone. Good coaches are story busters that allow the person they are coaching to reexamine events and generate different, more empowering interpretations. These interpretations give new openings for more effective actions.
Is your management team capable? | The Executive Perspective
May 8, 2011 at 10:11 am
[...] you are in an organization where this happens, we make these broad statements about other teams often times without fully grounding these statement…. Most likely, something happened in the past, and you made a story up about it, and then what [...]