Yesterday in practice 27 a team of 8 crazies asked each other to challenge them. They wrote specifically how they each wanted to be challenged by their teammates. A few teammates asked clarifying questions and provided specific and concrete challenges to those asking for it. The ones “asking for it,” focused on hearing truth. A few blindspots were illuminated. A few individuals received feedback designed to make them better. This team became more united, more aligned, more ONE, distinct and deeply connected.
Yesterday another client got blindsided. He didn’t ask for this challenge and didn’t see it coming. He had his blind-spot illuminated, just not in a way designed to make him better. How can this kinda feedback make individuals better and teams more united?
Today, seek feedback from those around you. Ask to be challenged by peers, leaders, and front line associates. And, when asked by others for feedback do something unnatural, highly unusual, and downright contrary to the norm; tell them the truth in LOVE.
What is your habit? Illuminating your blindspots and the blindspots of those around you or getting blindsided and perpetuating more of the same? Is your culture passive/aggressive or performance aggressive? Do you welcome feedback to your face? Do you give feedback directly to the only face that needs to hear? Do you sneak around under the cloak of darkness and deliver the deed from the shadows, between the shoulder blades, from the back, all because you have NO spine?
Your reputation, remember, is who others think you are. Your character is who you are when no-one sees. Build a virtuous character my friend. Fight fair. Seek feedback to get better. Deliver feedback to build the same in another. ONE is the only one you want…
BUILT TO LEAD 