The Unobtrusive Guidance Principle
Developing colleagues requires guidance, but guidance can become intrusive, undermining the autonomy and confidence it aims to build. The unobtrusive guidance principle involves providing direction and support that enables growth while preserving the developing professional's sense of agency. The professional who guides unobtrusively develops capability that intrusive guidance would suppress.
Intrusive guidance takes over—telling rather than asking, directing rather than suggesting, solving rather than enabling. It produces compliance rather than capability, dependence rather than development. The developing professional learns to wait for direction rather than exercise judgment.
Unobtrusive guidance asks questions that prompt thinking, offers suggestions that leave choice intact, and provides support that enables independent action. For those building professional development strategies that include developing others, unobtrusive guidance distinguishes those who build capability from those who build dependency. Our guidance framework provides development approaches.
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