The Best Leaders are Feedback Magnets — Here’s How to Become One

This resource first appeared in issue #101 on 19 Nov 2021 and has tags Managing Your Career: Other, Becoming A Manager: Feedback

The Best Leaders are Feedback Magnets — Here’s How to Become One - Shivani Berry

Relatedly, if we want to grow, we need good, actionable, feedback. In our industry, a lot of our directors are pretty hands off, which certainly has advantages but means we don’t get the guidance we’d benefit from. Berry has two broad categories of recommendations for how to get more feedback and accelerate your growth:

Learn how to accept feedback well - manage your knee-jerk reaction, think of it as an opportunity to grow, ask meaningful questions to learn more, and reflect. This will make it more comfortable for people to give you the feedback you’re looking for; and
Help people give you better feedback by asking specific questions (not “how am I doing”), asking for the more neutral “advice” rather than “feedback” (people love giving advice), and demonstrate that you act on the feedback