Heading into a meeting, a conversation, or a meal with your boss, your team, or your kid? Here are three quick and dirty things you must do to make that meeting not only productive, but enjoyable as well.
The quality of your feedback has the power to make or break results in your organization, strengthen or dissolve connection, build or break trust, and elicit creativity or carefulness. What's the quality of your feedback?
I find feedback to be one of the most important leadership skills people can work with yet also one of the most intimidating; people fear it, avoid it, sugar coat it, and "feedback sandwich" it leaving the receiver with diluted feedback, hurt feelings, and lost opportunities that do no one any good.
You have something you really want to do in your organization. Or with your partner. Or in your life.
But there's a quiet fear that they just aren't going to go for it.
And you really want it. You know in your heart of hearts that this is important. What do you do?
Shut it down before it's even started, blame it on the infamous "they" for not letting you be fabulous, and let it go? OR get in there, face it head on, and make it happen?
If you're doing it for the right reasons and your leadership wisdom is taking you there--yeah--you get in there.
This from a rock star who was killing it in results at her company but also leaving "dead bodies" and a trail of tissues behind with her team.
This is not uncommon--I see it all the time. Great performance, wicked talent, awesome people with unintended impact. An easy fix if the person wants it to be.
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