Expanding your leadership range requires courage.

And when you commit to vulnerability and take a risk you begin to expand both potential and impact.

Behavioural Experiments

Here's one example.

A client leader committed to ASKING more open ended questions rather than 'TELLING' instructions.

Tip: focus on starting/growing/expanding behaviours rather than stopping/reducing/minimizing behaviours.

Surprising Results

On the first team the leader saw amazing impact that really surprised them. They saw…

⏫ - …more engagement

⏫ - …higher quality outcomes than they anticipated

Gravity

On a second team they tried this with it was different.

They felt the strong familiar pull back to TELLING. This is GRAVITY at work.

So they got agreement from a trusted colleague to give them 'THE SIGNAL' whenever the colleague felt them heading back to the default. The leader was signaled three times that week.

ACTION + REFLECTION => LEARNING

This leader's behavioural experiment brought positive impact, better than they had imagined when they started.

It also generated new and important information about context and how the characteristics of a particular system generated GRAVITY.

TL;DR;

When you believe there is untapped potential in the team—

🤔 - ask more than you tell

🤔 - ask powerful, short, open ended questions

🤔 - engage others to support your accountability

🤔 - be a role model for courageous, humble learning