Prepared: What Kids Need for a Fulfilled Life

STP process—“identify the status,” “define the target,” and “develop the proposal”—that

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Group work goes wrong in two primary ways. First, most often the task assigned isn’t actually worthy of group work. What groups do well is solve complex problems that benefit from different experience, expertise, skills, and knowledge. Groups aren’t better at completing tasks that are rote or linear, with a single right answer.

What is working or not working? Why? Put yourself in the other person’s shoes—what do you think their perspective is? What role can you play in getting to your desired outcome? Is there anything you need to do to make the relationship right?

If someone gave a “thumbs-down,” that was their right, but then they would also have to make a suggestion to make the proposal better.

Groups who are prepared for the coming storm, and view it as a productive stage to getting to a more aligned, “norming” place, fare better.

What behaviors are you exhibiting?

We want to avoid nearing the crisis point to begin with because it is so stressful, and so we naturally start putting structures in place to prevent our kids from even coming close to a failure.

What emotions do you have?