{"id":21917,"date":"2020-12-23T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-23T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=21917"},"modified":"2021-01-04T19:36:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T23:36:04","slug":"radical-candor-by-kim-scott","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/radical-candor-by-kim-scott\/","title":{"rendered":"Radical Candor by Kim Scott: Be a Good Leader and Person"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is <em>Radical Candor <\/em>by Kim Scott? What are the key pillars of her book and her management philosophy?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Radical Candor<\/em> by Kim Scott is a book that recommends managing in a way that is straightforward and deeply human. It hinges on caring personally and challenging directly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about <em>Radical Candor <\/em>by Kim Scott.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview of <em>Radical Candor <\/em>by Kim Scott<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Radical candor<\/strong> is a straightforward, deeply human way of managing the people who work for you and supporting them through personal and professional problems. There are two vital components to radical candor: \u201c<strong>caring personally\u201d <\/strong>and \u201c<strong>challenging directly.\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Caring Personally<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the <em>Radical Candor <\/em>book, <em>caring personally <\/em>means caring about who employees are on a human level, beyond their work output. This requires getting to know each team member\u2019s motivations and ambitions, as well as learning about their \u201cwhole selves\u201d\u2014their lives and interests <em>outside<\/em> of work that may affect their needs <em>at<\/em> work. Showing that you personally care about your employees naturally builds trusting relationships. When an employee feels that you have her best interests in mind, she\u2019s more likely to engage with your feedback, trust your decisions, and be honest with you\u2014and in turn, you\u2019ll feel that you can trust and be honest with her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Challenging Directly<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Challenging directly<\/em> pushes you to have tough conversations with your employees, such as in giving criticism or discussing subpar performance. These important conversations give your employee the opportunity to improve, help you avoid more problems and tough conversations down the line, and contribute to trust-building\u2014being direct and pushing your employee to their full potential demonstrates that you care about them.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Bringing radically candid leadership to your workplace <\/strong>by caring personally and challenging directly<strong> enhances four vital components to building a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-keep-your-team-motivated\/\">motivated team<\/a> and achieving great results:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/building-trusting-relationships\/\">Building trusting relationships<\/a> with your team members<\/li><li>Improving the guidance you give and receive&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li><li>Managing your team members\u2019 ambitions and growth more effectively<\/li><li>Creating an efficient and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/effective-collaboration\/\">effective collaboration<\/a> system&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Building Trusting Relationships With <em>Radical Candor<\/em><\/strong><em> <\/em>by Kim Scott<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When you build trusting relationships with your team and let them bring their <em>whole selves<\/em> to work, you can better understand their needs and make sure their work is meaningful to them, which naturally motivates great results. These trusting relationships can\u2019t be forced\u2014rather, they\u2019re developed through repeated demonstrations of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/how-to-practice-detachment\/\">practicing self-care<\/a>, giving your team autonomy, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/respecting-boundaries\/\">respecting boundaries<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Improving Guidance With Radical Candor<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The second component of leadership in <em>Radical Candor <\/em>by Kim Scott is improving your guidance. Giving radically candid guidance means calling on both personal care and direct challenge when delivering criticism and praise. Without a healthy balance of these two principles, you risk giving guidance that doesn\u2019t solve problems, creates distrust, or allows poor work. An imbalance can manifest in three guidance types: \u201c<strong>obnoxious aggression,\u201d \u201cmanipulative insincerity,\u201d <\/strong>or<strong> \u201cruinous empathy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Introduce Radically Candid Guidance to Your Team&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Radically candid guidance can be off-putting if your team isn\u2019t used to sincere criticism and praise. <strong>Building a culture where radical candor is the norm has two parts: <em>asking<\/em> for radically candid guidance and modeling an appropriate response, and <em>giving <\/em>radically candid guidance.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Maintaining a Radically Candid Culture<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A radically candid culture is built on the continued use of caring personally and challenging directly.<\/strong> According to the <em>Radical Candor <\/em>book, as the boss, you can maintain caring relationships with your team members by giving them consistent guidance and having regular check-in meetings with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, you can ensure that your employees act with radical candor toward<em> one another<\/em> by insisting that they resolve conflicts together, instead of coming to you. You can also set up environments that encourage them to discuss their successes and failures openly. For example, in your weekly staff meeting, have employees nominate one another for an MVP award to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/praise-and-recognition-in-the-workplace\/\">recognize good work<\/a> and highlight positive behaviors. Have them nominate <em>themselves<\/em> for a \u201cwhoops\u201d award to take accountability for mistakes and provide everyone with a learning opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Managing Ambitions and Growth With Radical Candor&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The third component of leadership in <em>Radical Candor <\/em>by Kim Scott is effectively managing the growth of your employees. In learning about your team members, you learn more about their goals, their motivations, and the growth trajectory they\u2019re on\u2014this helps you support them in ways that keep them engaged with their work and satisfied with their team.<strong> There are five performance and growth trajectory combinations you\u2019ll come across:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>High performance with gradual growth<\/li><li>High performance with rapid growth<\/li><li>Low performance with expected rapid growth<\/li><li>Mediocre<\/li><li>Low performance with no growth<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Promoting Effective Collaboration With <em>Radical Candor <\/em>by Kim Scott<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The fourth goal of a radically candid workplace is building a highly collaborative atmosphere and a team that works together to accomplish much more than you could individually. <strong>There are seven steps in the <em>Radical Candor <\/em>book to get to effective collaboration: listening, clarifying, debating, deciding, persuading, executing, and learning.<\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What Radical Candor Creates<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>According to <em>Radical Candor <\/em>by Kim Scott, when you commit yourself to caring personally about your team members and challenging them directly, you become a great boss. You <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/5-ways-to-love\/\">build strong relationships<\/a> with your team members, create a culture of sincere and helpful guidance, and put together growth plans that make sense and have personal motivations built in. With this kind of support, your team members will consistently bring their best selves to their work and their collaboration, delivering results that you\u2019d never be able to accomplish alone.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is Radical Candor by Kim Scott? What are the key pillars of her book and her management philosophy? Radical Candor by Kim Scott is a book that recommends managing in a way that is straightforward and deeply human. It hinges on caring personally and challenging directly. 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