Setting-up team success ”How Ask for Help?”
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" To some team members, asking for help, even asking for clarity, can be interpreted---from their perspective---as a sign of personal weakness". How can the team leader encourage asking for help, so a team make it Easy for People To Ask for Help..... let's we look together a bit of share that our talking about below. By knowing how to ask for help and how to do it right, is critical to doing job well and setting your own team up for success. Pls feel free for gv any idea... "
" Ask for help "
There is a tendency with any group of achievement-oriented people for them to want to excel, putting a lot of pressure on themselves and their teammates to perform While achievement is an admirable characteristic, a potential risk is that high performers might not ask for help when they need it Why? To some team members, asking for help, even asking for clarity, can be interpreted---from their perspective---as a sign of personal weakness. After all, aren't they supposed to know how things are done? Isn't that a reason why they have been included on the team? Haven't they always known the right answer in the past?
Instead of asking for help, some high performers either avoid doing a task or do it the way they think it should be done. Either way, the pressure to perform without asking for help is going to cause problems for the team.
How can a team make it easy for people to ask for help? The team leader can encourage asking for help; in fact be or she might model that behavior by asking for help when faced with a problem he or she can't solve alone.
In addition, teams can build coaching to match the way the team works. For any given assignment or project team members can talk about how things should be done---the steps, the concepts, the techniques---as well as provide examples of different ways of doing things. In a way, the team is simulating a step in the work process and learning from the experience, providing all members with a clearer new of how-to.
What if the team it self is stumped on how to do a task or execute a project?
What if no one on the team had ever done anything quite like what was being asked for now?
THE ANSWER, is finding another team that has been successful at a similar task or which has an expert on-board who can provide coaching and examples, Many teams even go outside their own organizations to study how another team or group in a different organization has accomplished a task. This process, called "benchmarking," is an effective way of asking for help. Obviously, not every organization is going to be willing to share their hard-earned methods and techniques, but, if the team approaches a non-competitor, chances are information will be willingly shared.
"People seldom improve when they have no other model
but themselves to copy." —Oliver Goldsmith
