How Do I Get My Team To Cover and Move?

Leif Babin:
The intent of Cover and Move is literally that you can look out for your peer or the other team, or the other person that you depend on, or the other team that you depend on, in order to accomplish the mission to win. That's the intent. You want to build a relationship with them so that you can help them so that the entire team wins. And when the team wins, everybody wins. You're not going to try to give cover to someone so they can move so that they then give cover for you. That is a nice thing that generally happens if you build a good relationship with someone, is that they're actually willing to help you, but that's not the purpose of why you're trying to do it. The goal is that you win. And if you understand what cover and move means, it means it's not about you, it's about the mission. So stop worrying about yourself and start focusing on helping the entire team win.
So what's interesting about this question of what do I do if I'm covering for Leif, but he's not covering for me? What do I do? And the instinct that a lot of people have is, "Oh, Leif's not helping me. I'm helping Leif, but he's not helping me. I'm going on the attack. I need to confront Leif. I need to say, "Hey Leif, hey listen, I'm doing all this for you. You're not doing anything for me." And as Leif just said, already that shows that my intent is wrong. So what do I do when Leif isn't covering from me? Do I go on the attack? No, I don't go on the attack. I actually approach Leif and say, "Hey Leif, I noticed that I could use a little support over here, and I see that you're able to handle it. Is there something else that I can do for you so that we can work together better as a team because I'm going to need some support over here."
So I don't go to the attack. I try and figure out if I can cover for him more. That's what I'm going to do. So if someone is not giving you the support that you need, don't go on the attack. Don't do that. Instead, find out what's happening, ask some real earnest questions about why you're not getting the support that you need, and then try and figure out a solution. There's a chance that the reason Leif isn't giving me the support that I need is because Leif is overwhelmed, or he got some other tasks that I don't know about, or his wife is sick at home with the kids and he's worried about that.
There could be any number of reasons that he's not giving me the sport that I need, and if I just go on the attack, what does that do to our relationship? It hurts it. So instead I say, "Hey Leif, I could use a little bit more support but I'm not really feeling it. Is there something going on that I need to help you with?" What does that do to our relationship? It builds it. It makes it stronger. And by the way, if he has a problem, now we can look at solving that problem, and that's what we're trying to make happen.
And the last thing I'll say is this, maybe in a month or two months or three months, I'm the one that's overwhelmed, or I'm the one that's got a sick kid at home, or I'm the one that got tasked with things that are beyond what we're normally working on, and then I might need that extra support from Leif. Cover and move is teamwork. That's what it is. So when it's not happening the way you want it to happen, don't go on the attack, try and figure out what is actually lacking and fill that space together as a team.
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