Seek Feedback- A Leadership Skill
Get insights to be a better leader (3 Step Exercise).
Seeking feedback involves asking others for their perspective on your performance, behaviour, and decisions.
If you want to excel as a sports captain, a director, a founder, a leader, then you need to be looking for feedback to identify your blindspots and find ways to develop yourself and your leadership. This 3 Step Exercise will help you figure out who you want to reach out to, and what perspectives you would like to glean.
Why seek feedback?
You want to be the best you can be. You want to lead a team that is consistently doing strong work - bringing home championships, to use a sports analogy. Feedback is one of the best strategies in your toolkit to identify what you are missing from your performance and learn how you can improve.
Red Flags:
Before you dive into the exercise, be cautious of these red flags; ignoring the feedback you receive, becoming defensive when receiving feedback, only seeking feedback from people who agree with you, and asking for feedback infrequently.
Here's what you can do:
Step 1- Prepare:
Identify one area in which you want feedback. In other words, what do you see as an area in need of improvement?
This could be technical, tactical or leadership improvements, for example, ways to communicate, or deal with conflict, or how to manage the ref during a competition.
Step 2 - Select:
Decide who can best provide the feedback; whether a coach, teammate, or someone else you know can help you.
Here's a tip: Make sure it's someone whom you trust and who you know will be totally honest with you.
Step 3 - Engage:
Reach out to the person you want to get feedback from right away and set up a time to talk.
If you want to be the best leader and teammate you can be, then my encouragement to you is to make seeking feedback a habit - a routine part of your leadership practice. Do your best to reach out to someone every week to continue to get feedback that will help you lead and perform at your best.
Tools:
Leadership
Emotional Intelligence