What do you do when you find out that you need to develop in the areas of communication, adaptability or openness? Maybe these leadership skills have been asked of you for the role that you play in your company or, you received feedback from others mentioning that these are areas of opportunity for you to work on.
It’s part of human nature to want to develop and 360-degree feedback with coaching is believed to be the best available tool for development. 360-degree feedback programs can have a powerful impact on individual, team and organizational performance. Used as a development tool, 360 feedback programs can be used by organizations to increase employee engagement […]
Can you look at yourself in the mirror and honestly know who it is you see? Do you look hard enough to see the success with the flaws and the beauty in being unique? Would you be afraid to write down your weakness and vulnerabilities to build your strengths? When you look carefully at yourself […]
For over two decades 360 degree feedback has been used as an effective tool to provide honest, accurate feedback to staff members, predominantly in senior management and leadership positions, about their behaviour. Advocates of 360 degree feedback point to the benefits of gathering multi-rater feedback about an individual’s contribution to the organization in terms of their job skill, […]
What better topic for me to write about other than building a culture of openness and feedback in your organization. After all, this is the product that we sell at SelfStir. But lets look at it first from your perspective, or mine as a business owner; lack of openness or feedback wastes most of people’s […]
We are faced with decisions in our professional careers, at home and within our communities that challenge our judgment and affect the environment around us. As our shoulders bear a considerable amount of weight, our minds begin to make decisions with haste to alleviate immediate stressors. Unfortunately, swift resolutions can result in undesirable repercussions and […]
We can’t expect from people what we aren’t willing to give. We expect transparency and openness from our leaders and politicians, our families, our coworkers and members of our community, but if we aren’t willing to be open with them, we can’t expect transparency in return. Openness can apply to our lives in many different […]
We are taught to stand our ground and we teach our children to do the same. Our entire lives we make decisions and refuse to back down, but sometimes we confuse stubbornness with confidence. Do you know at what point you are just being stubborn? We don’t have to be afraid to be adaptable. Allowing […]
Feedback… think for a moment… What does this word trigger in you? For most people, the word feedback, especially in their work context, tends to trigger all sorts of negative and troubling thoughts and emotions. This is because the way we have often received feedback and the way we give feedback has generally been less […]
Learning Orientation is what keeps inspiration and the quest for knowledge alive. The desire to keep learning drives our determination, and allows us to experience the totality of life. Once we stop craving the taste for knowledge, we hinder our personal growth. We prevent our minds from being open to new ideas and stop telling […]
