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Creating norms that welcome vulnerability
To reduce pressure toward conformity and create space for authenticity. Cultivate norms that make it safe to be authentic: • The team leader regularly models vulnerability by admitting uncertainty and acknowledging mistakes • When team members take risks by being vulnerable, they… An ongoing team scaffold (team culture), run continuous, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 5-90 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, values-clarification
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (Continuous)
Origin & where it lives
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
Instructions: open online
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Team leader role (Jordan): Your behavior is the primary determinant of whether vulnerability is safe. Go first in being vulnerable. Never use shared information against someone later.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25