On your next team-building retreat, set aside some time for discussion of the PQ concepts and have each person identify his or her own Saboteurs. Some leaders worry before such retreats about one or two individuals who are particularly difficult, unaware, or reluctant to admit their own flaws. Since no one individual is being singled out for discussion of what is wrong with them, everyone participates in the PQ discussion fully. To this date, I have never encountered a single team member who claimed that he or she didn’t have Saboteurs and refused to identify their own during a team retreat.

