About this episode

Robert Adams discusses the concept of feedforward and its impact on leadership and behavior change.

Most feedback creates defensiveness. Feedforward creates development. In this episode of A Student of Leadership, Robert Adams shares the concept that changed how he leads and coaches: feedforward. The shift from looking in the rearview mirror to looking through the windshield. And the stakeholder approach to leadership development that removes the distortion of self-assessment. In this episode: - Robert's personal story: why the feedback conversations he was having were not changing behavior, and what shifted when the language changed - The rearview mirror versus the windshield: a visual that reframes how development conversations land - Why backward-facing information produces defense, and how forward-facing information produces development - The exact language shift that keeps the wall from going up in your next development conversation - The stakeholder piece: why the people you impact and influence every day hold the most accurate picture of your actual leadership behavior - How to use a two-part stakeholder question to ground your development in reality rather than self-perception - Where AI genuinely helps in the feedback and development space and where the relational work…

People in this episode

Host: Robert Adams

Topics covered

• feedback
• leadership development
• feedforward
• self-assessment
• stakeholder approach
• behavior change

Keywords

• feedback
• feedforward
• leadership
• development
• behavior change
• stakeholder
• self-assessment

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