Sam Grayston

Tag: challenge

  • What No One Tells You About Guilt and Embarrassment

    What No One Tells You About Guilt and Embarrassment

    Hands up who has been ‘guilt-tripped’ into working late to finish a report or assignment. OK, hands down. Hands up anyone who has felt embarrassed by their dad’s dancing. Anyone? Yeah. Well, here’s the thing:

    Guilt and embarrassment are not a useful emotions.

    What do I mean, ‘useful’? I learned recently that there are, in essence, four emotions. And those four emotions are useful things. The four essential emotions are:

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  • The joker and the Devil’s advocate…introducing creativity and challenge to meetings

    A while ago, I did some work with my team thinking about what makes a team great, what kind of things we would see and hear and start to prioritise which aspects we wanted to work most on. We chose two things in particular:

    1. Creativity and innovation
    2. Constructively and safely challenge in meetings

    I went away and had a think about some ideas that might help facilitate these aspects during meetings. I came up with an idea I’m going to share here…

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