Lose your blind spots
The human tendency to judge ourselves by our intent — not our impact — makes us blind to how others perceive our behaviors. This is a blind spot, and it can stymie productive debate, and hardwire us into defensive reasoning.
This blind spot can block just about everything, especially in a crisis situation, but it doesn’t have to be this way – if we are aware of the danger! The authors suggest four strategies from which you can pick and mix. to improve your self-awareness. These strategies combine discussion and experience as well as individual and group development:
- Simulation. Simulate a collective way of working in an acute crisis situation to establish constructive discussion, collaboration, and decision-making norms and discover the value of synergy.
- Facilitation. Choose a veteran in your team to diagnose counter-productive dynamics and step in to lead the team back to healthy and productive conversations.
- Coaching. We are all vulnerable to creating roadblocks for ourselves. A coach will help you expand your thinking to uncover and address your own barrier(s).
- Training. Our inter-personal skills need to be worked at. Experience fosters self-awareness and development.
By reducing your blind spots, you will gain the ability to be faster and more agile with your team, especially when the outlook is foggy.
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“Don’t Get Blindsided by Your Blind Spots”
by Amy Edmonson and Aaron Dimmock, Harvard Business Review, November 2020)
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