The Power of Well-Delivered Feedback
This month, we’re focusing on feedback—its impact on you, your teams, and your company—and how to harness it as a powerful leadership tool.
This month, we’re focusing on feedback—its impact on you, your teams, and your company—and how to harness it as a powerful leadership tool.
We learn from a young age that breakdowns shouldn’t happen and are bad events in our lives to be avoided. At AJ, we tell a different story; breakdowns are the key to improvement. No matter your experience level, you’re bound to have breakdowns, especially if you are taking on something big at work or in life.
Breakdowns are a tool for improvement. How much game film do the great teams watch after their performance? Yes, they celebrate what they did well, but they also look to see what they can improve on. Even after the best of wins, the greats are looking for breakdowns to upgrade for the next game and show up better.
As a leader, can you let go of seeing a breakdown as something is wrong that needs to be fixed, determining whose fault it was? Will you try on seeing a breakdown as an invitation to discover what is missing for us to create the outcome we desire for the next time.
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” — John Powell
Over the next few weeks, get into a conversation about breakdowns and the opportunity to learn to see what’s missing to apply for next time by:
The link below offers some more practices that can support in reversing burnout in yourself and others.
Awesome Reference
5 Failure: The Secret to our Success is one of our favourite videos on learning from breakdowns.
Have an awesome month, leader!
As we approach the second anniversary of COVID-19, more and more professionals are “hitting the wall” and burnout is at an all time high across all market segments.
Toss on top winter, cold weather, and January’s shorter days with less sun and you have the instant cherry on top of a doom and gloom recipe for burnout.
It is no secret that burnout has a direct impact on your ability to produce results. Not to mention, it impacts how effectively you lead others, who are likely burnt out as well and will need extra motivation from you to perform.
Burnout is different from stress. Stress can be managed by tactics like taking time off, going on vacation or rest. Burnout is a type of exhaustion that can be very difficult to turn around or recover from and does not go away on its own.
Burnout can be transformed through the following set of practices:
The link below offers some more practices that can support in reversing burnout in yourself and others.
Awesome Read
5 Things to Do When You’re on the Edge of Burnout
Have an awesome month, leader!