Helping others to be bold

Use these questions to reflect on how you can inspire your team members to be bolder, to take on new responsibilities and to perform to higher standards.

Supporting team members

• How can you best express your confidence in individuals so that they can achieve more?
• How can you support the development of the skills necessary for people’s courage to grow?
• How can you create a culture in which people are not afraid to fail and in which they can learn from failure?
• How do — and can — you act as an inspirational role model?

Connecting to motivations and values

• How can you build the necessary levels of empathy to connect to people’s intrinsic motivations?
• How can you connect your appeals to be bold to each individual’s underlying values and drivers?
• What career aspirations do team members have and how can you connect these to your appeals to be bold?
• Which higher or ethical purposes of team members can you help to satisfy with your appeals for boldness?

Being clear about tasks, roles and support

• How realistic are your demands for people to broaden their scope of effort and responsibility?
• Which tasks can individuals delegate so they can expand their activity in the directions you wish them to?
• How much time can you commit to individual conversations in which you can define roles and expectations effectively?
• How much support do you need to give to ensure that the wider organization supports your team members in their efforts to think and act more boldly?