Ensure Your Feedback is Heard
Karin Hurt, the Founder of Let’s Grow Leaders, published a very good piece about how leaders can ensure their feedback is appreciated. Essentially, your team wants to know you understand their situation. That you’ve walked the walk, and experienced the same challenges they currently face.
- Don’t ask your team to take risks that you aren’t willing to take yourself.
- Create an atmosphere where they will welcome your feedback.
- Make sure your feedback focuses on larger goals rather than momentary events.
- Unless your team feels that you’re ALL in this together, you’ll always be an outsider, and that’s not where you will be an effective leader.
The full article is a quick read, and well worth the time. Take her advice and get better at giving yours.
