25/06/2021
Check out our founder's, Raymond Phoon's, insights on leadership! Find out Ray's thoughts on this subject! We're sure you'll find this extremely thought-provoking! It certainly got us to think 🤔
Are you aware of your Blindspots? What are your thoughts? Let us know in the comments 🤓
We can only truly improve ourselves further when we have awareness of our blindspots and clarity of what we plan to do with them. We all have blindspots. How much do you know about your Blindspots?
Recently, we conducted one on one coaching sessions with 20 separate leaders from a large MNC using the Six Seconds Leadership Vital Signs (LVS) tool, that allowed us to capture 360 feedback about each individual's Leadership approach around Motivation, Change, Teamwork, Ex*****on & Trust drivers. This allowed us to ultimately derive outcomes for Influence, Efficacy, Design & Direction.
What was interesting was the fact that while most of these Leaders when compared to the norm group that have been assessed with LVS over the years around the world, were either ranked average or above average, their self rating vs others was quite diverse. Some even had up to 40% gap differentials, in their feedback ratings.
This means that how they saw themselves in the above mentioned drivers and outcomes were rather different from what others saw them.
While it was an eye-opener to them, we call these areas as blindspots. You see, blindspots are hard to uncover on our own, by self observation or purely by self-reflection alone. That's why they are called blindspots. We are blind to these areas.
Blindspots are best discovered when revealed by others. Much of these are through their feedback.
There are 2️⃣ kinds of feedback:
- Unsolicited
- Solicited feedback
Here are 3️⃣ things I know to be true about feedback:
1️⃣ Unsolicited feedback does not come often. And if you do receive them, they mostly come from people that we have good relationships with or from others that have some authority/influence over us.
2️⃣ Solicited feedback only comes when we ask for them and create a comfortable platform for others to give them to us.
3️⃣ To get a balanced view, get feedback from various people/stakeholders, not only those that we are close with.
In short, if we want to discover and overcome of our blindspots, ask for feedback often from those around us and be open to listen to them. What you want to do with the feedback then is up to you.
As a Leader, sometimes it's hard to admit our faults or gaps. After all, self-confidence and situation awareness is part of our playbook 📖 But if we truly want to grow and add value to our team and others around us, we have to allow ourselves to be vulnerable and be open to feedback. And truly, I say this from first hand experience as a Leader myself.
Are you aware of your Blindspots? Let's be open today to specifically ask and get input from others.
