ABOUT THIS EPISODE
A teammate hits the floor in a preseason game and starts to get up on his own. LeBron tells him: sit back down. We will come get you. That's a standard. That's not a feeling.
Somebody on your team is on the ground right now. When they went down, who moved?
In episode 137, I break down WE 6 from Kyle McDowell's Begin With We: we pick each other up. This is the one I don't see enough of. Teams talk about it. Very few have it as a standard.
Last week was about owning your mistakes. This week is what comes right after. Somebody shows a red. The room goes quiet. Nobody helps. They fix it alone at 11 o'clock at night and learn one thing: don't show a red again.
In this episode:
- We need to quit calling ourselves a team when we're just a group of people
- Stack it up: the standard, the model, the proof, the movement, the honesty, and now the support
- What happens when you get WE 5 right and skip WE 6
- Tie your shoe with your eyes closed: somebody didn't let you quit
- LeBron's standard: nobody gets up alone
- When a teammate takes a charge, it's about the other four
- What "on the ground" looks like at work, and why most leaders call it a performance problem
- The test: who notices first?
- McDowell: it's everybody's responsibility, and no one person is more important than the next
- The star is the most important person that picks others up
Your move this week:
1. Go through your team one by one and ask Don Meyer's question: what do they need and how can I help? Find the one who's on the ground.
2. Run the test. Somebody's struggling right now. Who noticed first? If it's you every time, you don't have WE 6 yet.
3. When a teammate picks somebody up, call it out. That's the behavior you want everyone to see.
"On this team, nobody gets up alone. When somebody goes down, everybody moves."
Chapters
00:00 Somebody on your team is on the ground
00:40 Who moved?
02:13 WE 6 of the Begin With We series
03:01 Quit calling yourselves a team
05:19 Stack it up: WE 1 through WE 5
06:15 Nick Saban: how can I trust you?
08:43 Why the order matters
10:49 Get WE 5 right and skip WE 6
11:41 The room goes quiet at 11 at night
15:40 Encouragement, the first E
16:09 Tie your shoe with your eyes closed
18:30 LeBron: sit back down, we'll come get you
22:29 If everybody had your attitude and body language
23:56 When a teammate takes a charge
26:55 It's about the other four
27:57 Flip the script on the shooter
29:45 What "the ground" looks like at work
31:11 Not always a performance problem
34:14 The test: who notices first?
35:45 Purpose stops being a slide
37:19 McDowell: it's everybody's responsibility
39:48 The star picks others up
42:38 Stack it up: the support
43:23 Duke and the four guys who sprint over
44:45 Next week, WE 7: outcomes, not activity
46:54 The free SDE assessment
Mentioned in this episode:
- Begin With We by Kyle McDowell
- The Advantage by Patrick Lencioni
- The SDE Playbook
- Nick Saban, Ben Newman, Jon Scheyer, Don Meyer, LeBron James, Steve Nash and John Wooden
- Simon Sinek with Oprah Winfrey on Barry-Wehmiller
This is WE 6 of 10 in the Begin With We series. Catch up with episode 132 (The One Standard That Holds Up Every Other Standard), episode 133 (Who Sets the Temperature on Your Team?), episode 134 (Built or Destroyed One Commitment at a Time), episode 135 (We Take Action) and episode 136 (Tough on the Problem, Easy on the Person).
If this one hit, send it to somebody on your team. Better yet, send it to the person who's on the ground right now.
Find out where your team stands. Take the free 30-question SDE assessment and download the SDE Playbook at https://deadthreecoaching.com/sde-assessment
