If you need to build confidence that your team can achieve objectives sooner, consider a dynamic many miss:
Delivering priorities faster means improving how the team adapts to emerging data in real time.
Adaption requires insight. And insight demands feedback.
Those who stall until the boss provides feedback or wait for the next team meeting to change norms are destined to miss deadlines.
The teams that are winning today have colleagues providing feedback to one another so they can align efforts in the flow of work.
Are you and your colleagues succeeding in giving and receiving peer-to-peer feedback?
Failure sounds like this:
- “I disagree with the feedback.”
(Translation: I don’t care about your reality. Mine is more important.) - “I don’t like how they delivered the message.”
(Translation: I must deflect attention away from me and make them the problem.) - “Yeah, but no one has told me how to do it…”
(Translation: I’m the real victim here.) - “They don’t understand why I do it this way…”
(Translation: They’re wrong. I’m right.)
The human ego is brilliant at making the case that you don’t have to change. They do.
Be bigger than your ego. If you don’t evolve, your team won’t either.
What success sounds like:
- “That’s a different perspective. I want to understand it better.”
- “The fact that the message was difficult to hear is a signal I need to consider what they said.”
- “I’m learning in this process.”
- “Thank you. I appreciate that you care enough to speak up.”
Excuses or adaptation? Your team can increase its speed of achievement. And you’re the one to prove it.
P.S. If you’re not receiving feedback from peers, it may say more about you than your colleagues.