All core values
Growth
Stretch
Choosing goals that require people to become more capable than they are today.
Behaviors
- Assigns work slightly beyond current ability
- Supports people through the discomfort of growth
- Recognizes growth as much as outcome
Anti-patterns
- Setting goals so safe they cannot fail
- Stretch without support
- Punishing people for missing ambitious targets
Reinforce it with
- Growth-oriented goal setting
- Coaching during hard assignments
- Promotions that reward capability built, not just results delivered
Stretch is the request that pulls people into their next version of themselves.