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January 26, 2005
Facilitative Leadership
I found an interesting article on Facilitative Leadership today - Becoming a Facilitative Leader, By: Schwarz, Roger, T+D, 1535-7740, April 1, 2003, Vol. 57, Issue 4.
The first line in the article is: "The path to positive outcomes can be counterintuitive." Followed by: "Leaders often help create the consequences they try to avoid."
Essentially, the author has created a quiz which includes questions like "what would you do if ...". I took the quiz and failed on every count. The author goes on to explain what happens if you select any of the other answers and it makes sense to me now that I could possible be aggravating a situation by trying to be too caring and protecting.
For example - In a situation where I would have to give negative feedback to someone, I chose to ask the person how they think they are doing. Apparently, this could create defensiveness, concern and embarrassment. The author suggests that "people don't need to be protected from negative feedback". By providing information to them, the chances of reaching an common understanding are far greater.
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