SELF-AWARENESS PRACTICE
Ask for Informal Feedback
No matter how strong our performance, we can always get better. As leaders, there is nothing preventing us from asking our colleagues, stakeholders, and customers how we are doing.
Examples of Feedback Questions
When asking for feedback from your team members, give them advanced notice so they have time to reflect before responding to you. Explain why this feedback is critical to you (e.g. I want to be at my best) and how the person we are asking is important in terms of helping us achieve our goals.
Here are some potential feedback questions:
- What is one thing you would like me to:
- Continue doing?
- Stop doing?
- Start doing?
- If you were the leader of this team, what’s the first thing you would do or change?
- What is the most important thing I can do to bring my performance to the next level?
- What can I do to receive higher quality feedback?