Leaders want feedback on how they are doing all the time. They don’t need validation of what they are implementing, they know when something is working and don’t need the pat on the back for doing a great job.
They Always Ask for It
Instead, they want to know how to make it better, how to grow it, how to scale it, and how to improve it — they want and need feedback to be able to accomplish it.
If you’re not asking for feedback, you’re not leading and you’re not growing. Asking for feedback isn’t always easy, especially when you know you’re doing a “meh” job but you don’t know how to make it better. Not everyone will ask for input because not everyone can stand to hear — “Where you started on this, you should have done it completely differently” — and realize that means everything else that followed was wrong.
Leaders can take that hit and grow.
It Makes Them Whole
When Leaders are not asking for feedback, they feel empty, they feel like something is wrong, some part of them is screaming out — “This isn’t right, we know we missed something and no one is telling us”. But when they get it, even knowing what they need to change, that’s when they feel whole, when they feel together again.
