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Got an 🌲evergreen🌲 question from Farcaster friend, @marissaposner, about helping teams make decisions faster and better.
This is crucial—slow, poor decisions cost teams time, morale, and momentum. Not to mention burn. After thousands of coaching conversations, here’s what I know to be true:
1) Build Trust First 🚀
Take the team out to dinner. Not a metaphor. Sit down, break bread, and get to know each other beyond the org chart. Trust isn’t built during conflict—it’s built before it. Best time? As early as possible, before any tension is on the line.
Can’t do dinner? Host a Zoom coffee or lunch.
Can’t meet at the same time? Do 1:1s. Send a gift card. Be an athlete.
Skip the icebreakers. Ask:
“You were born—and then what?”
2) Clarify the Real Challenge 🚀
Too often, we’re solving the wrong dilemma. It takes some digging—but it’s worth the descent.
Ask, “What’s the real challenge here?”
Then: “And what else?”
(From Michael Bungay Stanier, The Coaching Habit)
Keep going. Thing beneath the thing.
The good stuff’s at the bottom.
3) Create Alignment 🚀
Before debating what to do, align on what matters. Use Pam Heath’s four questions:
🔥What matters most?
🔥What does that look like?
🔥What makes it difficult?
🔥What makes it possible?
These bring clarity, reveal tensions, and align effort.
4) Ratify Decisions 🚀
Smart teams love to poke holes in ideas. So don’t ask, “Are we all good?” Instead, ask:
“Is there anything we can’t live with?”
(from Samantha Slade’s Going Horizontal)
This lowers the bar for objections and moves things forward faster—without false harmony.
5) Ensure Accountability 🚀
Even great decisions die without follow-through. Inspired by Marshall Goldsmith, use daily yes-or-no questions to track alignment with values.
Most people struggle with consistency.
But those who do this one small thing, daily, see real progress.
Just pick one damn thing and do it consistently.
Life’s a team sport.
Play hard.
Play fast.
Be a great teammate.
If I can help your team play better, let’s jam: kevincoale.xyz 👏🏻👏🏻 1 reply
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Got an 🌲evergreen🌲 question from Farcaster friend, @marissaposner, about helping teams make decisions faster and better.
This is crucial—slow, poor decisions cost teams time, morale, and momentum. Not to mention burn. After thousands of coaching conversations, here’s what I know to be true:
1) Build Trust First 🚀
Take the team out to dinner. Not a metaphor. Sit down, break bread, and get to know each other beyond the org chart. Trust isn’t built during conflict—it’s built before it. Best time? As early as possible, before any tension is on the line.
Can’t do dinner? Host a Zoom coffee or lunch.
Can’t meet at the same time? Do 1:1s. Send a gift card. Be an athlete.
Skip the icebreakers. Ask:
“You were born—and then what?”
2) Clarify the Real Challenge 🚀
Too often, we’re solving the wrong dilemma. It takes some digging—but it’s worth the descent.
Ask, “What’s the real challenge here?”
Then: “And what else?”
(From Michael Bungay Stanier, The Coaching Habit)
Keep going. Thing beneath the thing.
The good stuff’s at the bottom.
3) Create Alignment 🚀
Before debating what to do, align on what matters. Use Pam Heath’s four questions:
🔥What matters most?
🔥What does that look like?
🔥What makes it difficult?
🔥What makes it possible?
These bring clarity, reveal tensions, and align effort.
4) Ratify Decisions 🚀
Smart teams love to poke holes in ideas. So don’t ask, “Are we all good?” Instead, ask:
“Is there anything we can’t live with?”
(from Samantha Slade’s Going Horizontal)
This lowers the bar for objections and moves things forward faster—without false harmony.
5) Ensure Accountability 🚀
Even great decisions die without follow-through. Inspired by Marshall Goldsmith, use daily yes-or-no questions to track alignment with values.
Most people struggle with consistency.
But those who do this one small thing, daily, see real progress.
Just pick one damn thing and do it consistently.
Life’s a team sport.
Play hard.
Play fast.
Be a great teammate.
If I can help your team play better, let’s jam: kevincoale.xyz 👏🏻👏🏻 1 reply
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