There is someone on your team you have privately filed as the negative one. They are doing a job nobody has named.
They catch the risk early, or they push for the option no one else raised, and it reads as pessimism or as running too far ahead. What it actually reflects is a motivational orientation that sits a long way from the team’s dominant one, which means their attention is on the part of the decision everyone else is not looking at.
That person is not the drag on the room. They are the reason the room has a fuller picture than it realises, and nobody has told them so. Rooms learn fast, though. Eventually they stop offering it.
This is the kind of pattern I am covering on Thursday in Your Team Has a Pattern Nobody Has Named Yet. What different combinations predict about the way a team decides when the stakes are real, and where each one tends to get it wrong.
Free, forty five minutes, 5:30pm AEST. The recording goes to everyone who registers, so sign up even if the time does not suit. Link in the comments.
Who is that person on your team?
Based on the regulatory focus research of Heidi Grant Halvorson, PhD and E. Tory Higgins.
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