Lacking Initiative
Green Light: Let’s Get Going
1. Find the definition of someone showing initiative. Provide them the definition and have them highlight the key areas and what they might add to the definition. 2. This has now become your definition of taking initiative. 3. Ask them what they are going to do to successfully embrace this definition, and what are the actions they’re specifically going to take in the short time frame.
Yellow Light: Needs Attention
1. A lack of initiative can come from many sources such as a lack of knowledge or fear of making a decision or fear of making a mistake, along with many other reasons. 2. Ask the person(s) you’re coaching to verbally coach themselves and identify the true reasons initiative is lacking. (Yes, it may feel weird for them to talk to themselves this way but ask them to try). 3. This identification by asking them to coach themselves often helps people lower their defenses and look at themselves from a different perspective.
Red Light: Needs Immediate Attention
1. Knowing performance is always being measured in terms of progress, write down on paper or a whiteboard what can you do and are willing to do to accelerate your ability to take initiative and what will that look like starting tomorrow morning. 2. This activity slows down the cadence of thought and makes them think more critically. By writing things out, it tends to give people more of a commitment to what they say versus just saying it.
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