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1- Encourage and integrate new insights as they arise during the project. Be alert to all types of Calls to Learn

Goals (calls from the future) are the obvious sources of calls to learn. But there are others:

Calls come from outside you and the team. These take the form of events and people that occur while you are on automatic or following plans.
Calls come from the past. Past experiences, problems, successes hold many often unmined lessons for you, but also for any team you lead or participate in.
Calls come from inside you and your colleagues. These take the form of uncertainty, discomfort, fear, defensiveness, excitement, and more. These feeling reactions are often signals that you need to pay attention to something that is not obvious.
Calls come from wonder. Something surprising may occur that, if you paid attention to it, would influence your team’s work and learning.

For more on these types of calls, see the ” Hear the Call,” in Section 2: Learning Tips.

Your and the team’s tendencies might be to ignore these calls, but often they hold the keys to breakthroughs that were not in your original plans.

Periodically ask, is there anything calling us to learn that we need to pay attention to?

2- Capitalize on the expanded consciousness and intelligence of the team

There is a lot of talk about the positive creative and problem solving implications of diversity. Teams, by definition, are diverse because every individual is different. Of course, more varieties of diversity can increase performance and development potential.

See each team as more than the sum of its parts. There are the capabilities and energies that each member brings. But there is also the synergy and creativity of the team itself – as ideas evolve, contrasting ideas arise and expand collective insights.
Commit to focusing on team development and peer learning support – as well as performance. This helps you and everyone to see all members as evolving human beings–unique and with capabilities to offer to the team and individual members. Also, a development focus makes it okay for all members to be open learners and experimenters.