Practices to give and get VALUABLE insights - Defining Leaders
Wed, Jun 19
|Zoom
Our second Radical Candor lunch and learn where we explore practices to get, give and encourage guidance and feedback at work (praise and criticism)!
Time & Location
Jun 19, 2024, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Zoom
About the Event
Soliciting Guidance and Feedback
- Prove you can take it before dishing it.
In general, we have two guidelines for how to get others to criticize you:
Be persistent. Convince your team you really do want to hear what they really think. Show them that your requests for criticism are genuine and that you sincerely appreciate it when they say what they think. Keep asking for criticism regularly. Try different approaches, venues, and situations. Whatever you do, don’t accept an environment where you aren’t getting the feedback you need to be successful.
Reward the candor. It’s not enough to appreciate critique from your team, or not to get defensive. You have to reward the candor. People need to see and feel that there is a benefit to criticizing you.
Examples of what you could ask: “Give me some advice.” Here are a few more variations: • “How can I…