I have been out of the country for the past week so I was unable to attend class last week. This means that I did not get a chance to see the feedback on how others see me in a leadership role. I am curious to know what the people that filled out the survey for me think of my leadership abilities. It should be interesting to see because, although I work at the same company as all of them, we have worked together in very different forms. About half the people are senior to me and have worked as my supervisor, but at different times during my tenure with the company. The others are people that have worked on the same level with me in the different departments I have worked in. I have not had that many opportunities to show my leadership abilities so it will be interesting to find out what my colleagues think of me. When I do get a chance to look at the feedback that I received I will be able to think about what leadership abilities are most important for me to develop.
I feel like I receive authentic feedback pretty often in my personal as well as my professional life. I probably receive more authentic feedback in my personal life. I think this is because I am a pretty easy going person and I take criticism well. As a result people feel like they can tell me when I do or say something that they don't agree with or don't like. I like this because people tell me if I am doing something weird, that I usually don't even notice. It helps to keep me aware of the things that I am doing.
I don't get as much authentic feedback in my professional life as I do in my personal life. This may be because most of the people at work don't know me as well, so they don't feel as comfortable giving me authentic feedback. But there are some people at work that I can always count on to give me good feedback, whether I like it or not. This could mean that some people are more willing to give authentic feedback than others. Some people have a problem criticizing or complementing others, so they are less likely to give authentic feedback. Personally I prefer people that will give honest feedback because that is what helps you to improve in many different ways.
Without honest feedback you might not even know that there is something that you need to work on. Honest feedback is the first step to improving, because you need to know the problem before you can fix it.
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ReplyDeleteI think it is interesting that you get more feedback in your personal life than your professional life. Maybe it's because I started at my company "green," people are more than happy to provide me with feedback and career advice. The Executive Director of my group (my boss' boss) is super and isn't good at providing feedback. He gives indirect feedback on our performance to my boss and expects my boss to have performance discussions with us, while he gets to look like the good guy.
I finally figured out that he is non-confrontational and have actually started to manage my boss' boss. :) I ask him what he thinks about things and will make comments like, "I remember last time I heard that you didn't like how we did this..." After doing this to him a couple of times, he finally realized I paid attention to his feedback and started to give me direct feedback.
I've worked with you in several different groups and I know I can count on you to get your stuff done on-time. You're always first to turn in your group work. :)
I too receive more feedback in my personal life than i do in my profession. I think it's because when someone feels comfortable they are more likely to constructively criticize someone or something. The personal relationships that we form are usually a lot stronger than those formed at work with a superior or colleague, which effects the comfort levels in giving feedback.
ReplyDeleteI was away last week as well, so im going to wait to see my feedback before blogging about it... but, Get that money Dodge!