The Psychology is sound, I've used it at work numerous times, especially on public conference calls.
Say someone has done something stupid or caused a major problem and you're the one who has been called in to fix it. You find the issue, and the culprit, and you are explaining the issue and the solution to a dozen people, including board members.
You don't throw the culprit under the bus, you explain to the bosses that it was a natural mistake to make when trying to do something else that should have had a positive effect. You also don't name them.
After the call you can have a private chat with the person and they will forever after be i your camp and be willing to listen to you, because you didn't throw them to the wolves when you could have, and you also gave them a face saving excuse.
A few times I managed to convince the person to go to the bosses themselves and tell them that once I described how it could have happened they realised what they had done and now they were coming clean. This doesn't result in censure because the plausable get-out has already been established and it actually makes them look good, oddly enough.
That person is now part of your team.
The beauty of this type of approach is that you can even tell people what you are doing and as long as they see the benefits for themselves they are 100% ok with it, it's like magic.
Yes! I use this same approach with my team at work. Not only does it give that "face saving excuse," but it also establishes a more solidly cohesive team in general. It's a subtle way to train the team to view issues and screw ups from a place of curiosity over blame. And at the same time, if I or our CEO screws up, we openly admit it creating a safe place for natural human failures, along with the opportunity to learn from them, and full transparency from the top down. It's the perfect way to manage a team and probably the best way to go to gently red pill normies as they begin to wake up.
The Psychology is sound, I've used it at work numerous times, especially on public conference calls.
Say someone has done something stupid or caused a major problem and you're the one who has been called in to fix it. You find the issue, and the culprit, and you are explaining the issue and the solution to a dozen people, including board members.
You don't throw the culprit under the bus, you explain to the bosses that it was a natural mistake to make when trying to do something else that should have had a positive effect. You also don't name them.
After the call you can have a private chat with the person and they will forever after be i your camp and be willing to listen to you, because you didn't throw them to the wolves when you could have, and you also gave them a face saving excuse.
A few times I managed to convince the person to go to the bosses themselves and tell them that once I described how it could have happened they realised what they had done and now they were coming clean. This doesn't result in censure because the plausable get-out has already been established and it actually makes them look good, oddly enough.
That person is now part of your team.
The beauty of this type of approach is that you can even tell people what you are doing and as long as they see the benefits for themselves they are 100% ok with it, it's like magic.
Very based approach!
Yes! I use this same approach with my team at work. Not only does it give that "face saving excuse," but it also establishes a more solidly cohesive team in general. It's a subtle way to train the team to view issues and screw ups from a place of curiosity over blame. And at the same time, if I or our CEO screws up, we openly admit it creating a safe place for natural human failures, along with the opportunity to learn from them, and full transparency from the top down. It's the perfect way to manage a team and probably the best way to go to gently red pill normies as they begin to wake up.
Well put. Always give people a chance to save face if their screwups aren't malicious.