One of the keys to building a successful team is creating psychologically safe spaces, so team members feel comfortable taking risks and being vulnerable with each other. Our job as leaders is to figure out how to maintain psychologically safe spaces and build authentic trust among our teams, to maximize performance and foster strong relationships. This authentic trust also creates a sense of belonging, which is a deep human need for all of us. One tool to create psychologically safe spaces is the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI).
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“Respond from the center of the hurricane, rather than reacting from the chaos of the storm.”
- George Mumford
Welcome to the end of 2020, a year that has been extremely difficult for everyone. When the pandemic first hit, I was living in Atlanta and had just flown to Dallas for work. As I sat at a restaurant with a friend, the news broke that the NBA season was being canceled due to players testing positive for the virus. As a lifelong athlete and sports fan, this blew my mind and signaled the beginning of an unbelievable shift in life as we knew it.
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“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
The new year prompts many of us to think about goal setting, and the Back to the Future protocol is one of my favorite ways to envision a future that is out of the box, beyond concrete goals that you may already have in place. It is also an effective way to drill down from distant dreams into specific steps to propel you towards your destination as a team or individual.
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