Comments on: Coaching Mistakes http://anarchycreek.com/2010/02/25/coaching-mistakes/ Towards a Way of Excellence Sun, 05 Sep 2010 11:44:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: GeePawHill http://anarchycreek.com/2010/02/25/coaching-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-1021 GeePawHill Mon, 01 Mar 2010 18:48:50 +0000 http://anarchycreek.com/?p=1177#comment-1021 Pawel... The management support is key, you're right. Many companies create a culture of blame (and not coincidentally, a culture of lies), then go to absurd lengths to find a name for every flaw. Believe it or not, they think they are helping the company. The horror of such a system is usually the remarkable number of team members who agree that it is beneficial! -- Hill Pawel… The management support is key, you’re right. Many companies create a culture of blame (and not coincidentally, a culture of lies), then go to absurd lengths to find a name for every flaw. Believe it or not, they think they are helping the company. The horror of such a system is usually the remarkable number of team members who agree that it is beneficial! — Hill

]]> By: Pawel Brodzinski http://anarchycreek.com/2010/02/25/coaching-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-1020 Pawel Brodzinski Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:49:11 +0000 http://anarchycreek.com/?p=1177#comment-1020 I find learning to make mistakes and get over them at least as hard as learning to stop pointing on others' mistakes. These two are very often connected. This is a kind of natural reaction - I did something wrong, but there had to be some external reason so let's look for it. At the same time it isn't important who is to blame, but how to fix the mistake and what we can learn from it. Looking forward, not back. A key thing is management support for this attitude. If management look for ones to blame, so will teams. If management cuts the blame game at early stage people will much easier accept mistakes as a part of their jobs. I find learning to make mistakes and get over them at least as hard as learning to stop pointing on others’ mistakes. These two are very often connected. This is a kind of natural reaction – I did something wrong, but there had to be some external reason so let’s look for it.

At the same time it isn’t important who is to blame, but how to fix the mistake and what we can learn from it. Looking forward, not back.

A key thing is management support for this attitude. If management look for ones to blame, so will teams. If management cuts the blame game at early stage people will much easier accept mistakes as a part of their jobs.

]]> By: George Dinwiddie http://anarchycreek.com/2010/02/25/coaching-mistakes/comment-page-1/#comment-1016 George Dinwiddie Sat, 27 Feb 2010 01:06:36 +0000 http://anarchycreek.com/?p=1177#comment-1016 Oh, cool! Yesterday was even more so a day about mistakes. http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2010/02/26/how-fascinating/ Oh, cool! Yesterday was even more so a day about mistakes. http://blog.gdinwiddie.com/2010/02/26/how-fascinating/

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