{"id":247,"date":"2022-03-22T05:50:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T05:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/?p=247"},"modified":"2022-03-22T10:04:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T10:04:29","slug":"feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"Feedback"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cIt takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/mark>— Stephen Covey<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The discipline of assessing yourself and your Team is huge.\u00a0 Self assessments and feedback provide a realistic picture of our strengths and weaknesses. They allow us to see potential pitfalls, address them and intentionally live out and pour fuel on all of our strengths. Intuitively, we all understand the value of assessments. If you have ever purchased a home, you know that before your purchase is finalized, and you move in, you have the home inspected by a professional. Or if you’re buying a used car, you check the car’s value before you purchase. We do this because we want to know what we are getting before purchasing \u2013 this allows us to know what to expect. In the same way, we need to subject ourselves to feedback so we can learn from it and become more desirable leaders, co-workers and employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For me personally, to get the best overall picture of my strengths and weaknesses, I try to be systematic in my assessments, and have people provide feedback who are at different levels of influence in my life. My iron sharpening friends, mentors, and my direct report leaders to name a few. My family also provides insights that when combined with my colleagues\u2019 responses; provide a greater overall picture of my strengths and weaknesses. My wife and kiddos will be quick to let you know that dad needs to work on his time management skills a bit!\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In order for us to be willing to seek and respond to the feedback from those around us we need to appreciate and respect people if we are going to ask them to provide feedback on our skills, abilities and personal characteristics. If we do not respect the people around us \u2013 whether it be across, up or down \u2013 then we will not be able to constructively receive their feedback. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be intentional about giving your permission to share freely. If you are obsessed with personal, professional, and spiritual growth like I am, I am always wanting to make sure I am providing all that is necessary for my Team and everybody around me to grow and be successful! And to do that, feedback cannot be something that is just given once or twice a year during a performance eval. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Understandably, most people are a bit reluctant to share anything that could be perceived as negative about a person who is in positional authority over them and will need clear permission to provide honest feedback. Your friends and family may also struggle with openly sharing what they perceive as your weaknesses. Participants must be given the freedom to share openly for you to receive the most realistic picture of your current leadership and relational skills. When you humble yourself, people are much more comfortable providing necessary feedback! I’ll also say this – The higher we get in our leadership, the easier it becomes for people to tell us what we WANT to hear, and not what we NEED to hear! And that is not safe! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will land the plane with this. More importantly than getting feedback from people is applying that feedback in a way that makes us better leaders and better versions of ourselves. If we have made an intentional effort to gain the perspectives of those around, under and above us, then we also want to be intentional in applying what we have learned. Improvement in our leadership skills may take different forms when applied to different groups. We need to take the time to think through this.\u00a0 What will improving my listening skills (or any particular weakness) look like when interacting with those who are under my leadership? What does it look like to those who work alongside me? How will I apply what I learned in my interactions with those whom I report to? The changes we make as a result of what we learn through feedback should make us better employees, co-workers, leaders and overall just a better person!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cIt takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.\u201d\u00a0— Stephen Covey The discipline of assessing yourself and your Team is huge.\u00a0 Self assessments and feedback provide a realistic picture of our strengths and weaknesses. They allow us to see potential pitfalls, address them and intentionally … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-leadership","category-organizational-growth","category-personal-growth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":249,"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/249"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samgembel.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}