Experience

It's what you get when you don't get what you want

As leaders, adopting a “no failure, only learning experience” attitude can encourage our people to grow new competencies and become more effective self-starters.

Give your people chances to impress you. Let them develop new skills, knowing that their early efforts will lead to less-than-perfect drafts. Resist the impulse to take the work back to fix it—teach your people how to revise their work, and you will not have to fix it again.

Reward successes. And also reward good efforts, even if they fall short of perfection. You want your people eager to get “up to bat,” and that means celebrating the home-runs and base-hits, but also helping them shake off the strike-outs, learn from them, and get up again in the next inning with a better chance of hitting that pitch.

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