Ashish Kothari shares a meeting opener: ask each team member how they want to be supported or challenged this week. The question builds psychological safety, surfaces growth opportunities, and works whether people answer briefly or in depth.
Introduce this prompt. If you're looking for a prompt to start a meeting, ask people, tell me this week one way that you can be supported or one way that you can be challenged. What you do is you give permission to people to start talking about the need for support or the places at their growth edges. And that's a powerful way to increase the effectiveness of teams.
Tell me one way you would like this week to be supported or challenged.
Yes.
Simple. Beautiful question for a meeting.
Yeah. And people can go as deeply or as, you know, as shallow as they want. You allow people to answer that in whatever way is most comfortable to them. But as, as you ask it, people begin to recognize that, oh, I can actually say where I need support without people thinking I'm weak.
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