You know you need feedback to learn and grow, yet most people are not good at asking for it.
While receiving feedback can be “a stressful experience,” here are some great ideas about specifically how and why we should request it more often:
You know you need feedback to learn and grow, yet most people are not good at asking for it.
While receiving feedback can be “a stressful experience,” here are some great ideas about specifically how and why we should request it more often:
I think the author, Sean Graber, co-founder and CEO of Virtuali really nailed it in this article. What would you add?
Why Remote Work Thrives in Some Companies and Fails in Others – HBR.
I frequently work with leaders to help them learn to apply some of the skills of coaching to their work in developing members of their staff.
When people have experienced how powerful coaching can be, they are usually eager to use some of this with others who work for and with them. Here’s a good (short) article about maximizing these efforts with effective follow-up:
Have you tried these techniques? If so, please share your experience.
Your Coaching Is Only as Good as Your Follow-Up Skills – HBR.
We know that getting more women on teams can boost performance. The examples are numerous: Citing private internal research of 20,000 client teams, EY’s vice chair Beth Brooke has said that the more diverse teams had higher profitability and great client satisfaction than non-diverse teams. And professors Anita Woolley and Thomas W. Malone have learned that increasing the number of women on a team also increases its collective intelligence.
Yet when it comes to one of the most important “teams” a company has — its board of directors — the United States seems to have hit a ceiling of about 16% women, with little by way of national efforts by government or business to increase that number.
Some people seem to have an amazing ability to stay rational no matter what.
They efficiently make good, clear decisions while the rest of us waste energy doing things like panicking about upcoming tasks, ruminating pointlessly, or refusing to move on from our failures.
If you are not always one of those people, read about this interesting research by Ethan Kross from the University of Michigan and Ozlem Ayduk from UC-Berkeley about a simple change can make the difference between showing up like a cool-headed rationalist or a very worried and stressed out (but typical) human.
Pronouns Matter when Psyching Yourself Up – HBR.
In addition, here’s a link to a podcast of my past radio interview with Dr. Kross, “Can You Teach Yourself to Be Wiser.”
Great article by Annie McKee, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania, director of the PennCLO Executive Doctoral Program and co-author of Primal Leadership with Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatzis ,as well as Resonant Leadership and Becoming a Resonant Leader.
Think of the really great leaders you have known. Haven’t they all been exceptional in their ability to influence? What would you add to this?
What do our bodies and , in particular, our hands show us about our information processing?
The body knows more than we know……
A fascinating article about some really interesting research!
I’d love to learn more. How about you?
Where is your focus?
Are you focusing your time, thoughts and energy in the right areas? In the right proportions?
This article addresses this so effectively, it could be a “must read” every morning for those of us who are striving for excellence. What are your thoughts?
Time, Energy and People – Your Three Biggest Assets | Finance Lights.
Have you noticed that those who most could use some help with their emotional intelligence are often the least likely to know it?
Here is a wonderful article on the subject that could help you or someone else shed some light on this. (Remember, unlike IQ, which is largely fixed, EI is something that can be learned and improved, often with the help of good tools and an excellent coach.)
Most people have a hard time responding effectively to negative feedback.
Here’s a good article from Fortune Magazine that may help you to think about it,
and subsequently, respond to it in a different way: