How Others See You: Seeking Personal Feedback
You've just finished an important presentation. You return to your seat, and a colleague leans over and whispers, "You’ve got spinach in your teeth.” Even if you haven’t had this experience, you’ve probably lived through something similar in which you’re the last to know something that is obvious to everyone else. Unfortunately, we never exactly see ourselves as others see us. Gaining insight into how we affect others and how they view us provides us with new awareness and greater choices about how we act.
We'll use the Johari window and the feedback model to see what others see about you and ways you can elicit that feedback in a way that describes behavior, not blame. When someone gives feedback that feels like an attack, learn to ask questions that will elicit useful information. Create your own personal continuous improvement plan and be the best you can be every day.
About Johanna Rothman
Johanna Rothman helps managers and leaders solve problems and seize opportunities.
She consults, speaks, and writes on managing high-technology product development. She enables managers, teams, and organizations to become more effective by applying her pragmatic approaches to the issues of project management, risk management, and people management.
Johanna writes two blogs: Managing Product Development and Hiring Technical People. She is the author of:
- Manage Your Project Portfolio: Increase Your Capacity and Finish More Projects.
- 2008 Jolt Productivity award winning Manage It! Your Guide to Modern, Pragmatic Project Management
- Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management (with Esther Derby)
- Hiring the Best Knowledge Workers, Techies & Nerds: The Secrets and Science of Hiring Technical People
Find more of Johanna's articles and her blogs at www.jrothman.com.
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