Want to Build a Culture of Learning? You Need to Embrace Failure — from learning.linkedin.com by Paul Petrone
Excerpt:
Six questions that determine how your company really feels about failure
It’s great to say your company welcomes people experimenting and failing. But does that actually happen in practice?
To assess how your company really feels about failure, Andreatta suggests asking yourself these six questions about your culture:
- Do people admit when they don’t know something or ask for help?
- What happens when someone makes a mistake or fails? Are they teased or shamed or are they encouraged to look at what happened and try again?
- When people make mistakes or challenge ideas, do they ultimately get sidelined, demoted or red?
- Do people admit their mistakes and take responsibility for fixing them or do they blame others?
- Do managers and leaders share stories of how they took risks or recovered from a failure?
“All of the amazing training programs in the world won’t help if people don’t feel safe enough to stretch and grow,” Andreatta said.