This blog assumes that blind spots of power come with the CEO role no matter how good or true or well-intended you are. You can't afford to have them. So I give reminders of what I have seen in my experience to help you see. Or try to see. Monday morning practical tips will help you sharpen up and see what tweaks you and your blind spot. A little whack on the side of the head with your Monday morning coffee.
Sunday, August 4, 2013
TWO GREAT QUESTIONS TO DISCOVER A BLIND SPOT
I write on the supposition that the more power you carry the harder it is to know your impact on people and your organization. So as a top executive it is harder to continue to develop. The most fertile time to gain self-awareness as a leader is at the second or third tier of leadership. At this point you and everyone else knows you are still learning and that it's still cool to learn.
Executive coaching and in-house mentoring are welcome. CEO not so much.
Not that you are not a learner and wanting to improve but you are crazy busy, nobody mentors you, people think you already actually know stuff and you begin to think you do too.
Regardless of level, if you hold people's daily life and strife in your hands, it's hard to get a true picture of yourself.
These two questions help and can be asked simply and directly. A formal review is a great time to use them but so is the informal conversation that kind of falls in your lap.
1. What is an impact that I have that I may not know about? That helps or doesn't?
2. What do you do that is good work and effort that you think I don't see or
fully appreciate?
Simple. Ask. Listen. Open up the answers that you are given. Do it often.
With many people.
Both let you know what you are not seeing.
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