Coaching practices for Daring Greatly with My Team
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I have to tell someone something hard about their work and I’m dreading it, because every time I do it lands like an attack and they go defensive
- We’re heading into a project nobody has done before, but my team is treating it like a checklist where any slip is failure
- There’s a thing I want to say or ask for, but I can’t make myself do it without knowing how they’ll take it first
- Nobody on my team will say what they really think
- I feel like I have to look certain and have all the answers in front of my team, and I’m starting to wonder if that very armor is exactly why none of them will admit when they’re unsure either.
Practices that may help
- Daring Greatly, Made Practical
Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly argues that vulnerability — showing up without guarantees — is the birthplace of courage, connection, and creativity, not a weakness to hide. The ideas come from qualitative, grounded-theory research on thousands of interviews rather than controlled trials, so treat them as well-grounded patterns from lived experience rather than experimentally proven effects. - Give and receive feedback with courage
Sit on the same side of the table: feedback as a shared problem, not an attack.
Daring Greatly, Made Practical - Frame uncertain work as learning
Before starting a challenging project, name it explicitly as an experiment where mistakes generate information.
Psychological Safety in Teams - Choose vulnerability on purpose
Show up and let yourself be seen when there is no guarantee of the outcome.
Daring Greatly, Made Practical - Create safety for experimentation and honest challenge
Make it safe to raise problems, test new ideas, and disagree — before expecting the team to transform.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - Model vulnerability and uncertainty as a leader to accelerate safety
Deliberately share your own uncertainties, mistakes, and questions — it gives permission for others to do the same.
The Four Stages of Psychological Safety - Performing: step back and protect the conditions
A Performing team needs air cover and resources, not direction.
Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development - Build contributor safety — people offer ideas without fear of rejection
Create conditions where team members volunteer ideas, analysis, and solutions without waiting to be asked.
The Four Stages of Psychological Safety - Articulate a compelling vision of why the work matters
Connect the team’s daily work to a meaningful purpose they can believe in.
Transformational Leadership, Made Practical - Ask for feedback before you give it
Earn the right to challenge by inviting challenge yourself, first.
Radical Candor, Made Practical
Related concerns
- Daring Greatly At Work
Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly argues that vulnerability — showing up without guarantees — is the birthplace of courage, connection, and creativity, not a weakness to hide. The ideas come from qualitative, grounded-theory research on thousands of interviews rather than controlled trials, so treat them as well-grounded patterns from lived experience rather than experimentally proven effects.
- Daring Greatly With Friends
Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly argues that vulnerability — showing up without guarantees — is the birthplace of courage, connection, and creativity, not a weakness to hide. The ideas come from qualitative, grounded-theory research on thousands of interviews rather than controlled trials, so treat them as well-grounded patterns from lived experience rather than experimentally proven effects.
- Daring Greatly In A New Job
Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly argues that vulnerability — showing up without guarantees — is the birthplace of courage, connection, and creativity, not a weakness to hide. The ideas come from qualitative, grounded-theory research on thousands of interviews rather than controlled trials, so treat them as well-grounded patterns from lived experience rather than experimentally proven effects.
- Brene Brown Daring Greatly
Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly argues that vulnerability — showing up without guarantees — is the birthplace of courage, connection, and creativity, not a weakness to hide. The ideas come from qualitative, grounded-theory research on thousands of interviews rather than controlled trials, so treat them as well-grounded patterns from lived experience rather than experimentally proven effects.
- Brene Brown Vulnerability
Show up and let yourself be seen when there is no guarantee of the outcome.
Choose vulnerability on purpose
- Challenge Assumptions Team
Before executing, list the assumptions the plan depends on — then ask which ones would kill it if wrong.
Map and stress-test your key assumptions
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