It’s #thankfulthursdays and I’d like to give gratitude to Nevitt Sanford for conceptualizing this.
It’s called the Challenge and Support Model, which, in a nutshell, What Sanford is saying is that you have to establish a balance between Challenge and Support to drive career growth not just for yourself, but for your team members, and even for your children.
Read on to see how it works.
There’s an article that expounds on this a bit but nedless to say, for every Challenge raised, there must be an equivalent amount of Support provided.
That is what will allow a person to grow.
If you give too many challenges without providing enough support, you will experience a lot of failure, and worse, people will despise you for it.
It’s like asking them to go to war without any ammunition. It’s suicide.
On the other hand, if you give too much Support without an appropriate amount of Challenges, people will feel like you are spoonfeeding them. They will never grow.
It’s like giving them all the guns and ammo the world has to offer without training them. Plus they’ll never know how to survive in the jungle.
There always has to be a balance of both Challenge and Support, and according to Sanford, that’s the best way to grow.