Dave Kashen shows founders how to shift their team from dwelling on problems to solving them. Ask about the desired future state instead of rehashing what went wrong, and people naturally start identifying steps forward.
If you're a leader, often your team members come to you with problems, right? This is like the air we breathe as leaders. Oh, got this problem, got this problem, got— so the other place you can use DFS is like you just go, right, okay, hold on, I, I— okay, here, what's your desired future state? What would you like to have happen if this were all resolved to your complete delight and satisfaction? What would that look like? And what happens, it actually creates a state shift in them. So they go essentially from below the line to above the line when they go from focusing on the problem, right? They're essentially doing this lack and fear thing. And so it's a really simple almost hack to be like, okay, well, what, what would you like to have happen? I just see again and again with clients, and now when I teach this to clients, they see this with their team members, they immediately shift modes to, oh, okay, oh yeah, I want this and that and that. And then they can usually see how to get there when they felt totally stuck. And that way your team learns to solve their own issues more and more.
