Ashish Kothari and a facilitator share a meeting prompt: ask each person one way they'd like to be supported or challenged this week. The question normalizes vulnerability, lets people express needs without seeming weak, and shifts how teams talk to each other.
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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