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In this episode, Robert Adams discusses the transition from feedback to feedforward in leadership and the importance of absorbing feedback for personal growth.

This week's Play: Run the feedback you have been quietly resisting. Average leaders defend. Great leaders absorb. In this episode of A Student of Leadership, Robert Adams returns to The Fork, the fourth element of the Place Setting Framework, with the harder question that takes its second pass. What do great leaders absorb that average leaders reject? The leader who absorbs feedback is building. The leader who defends against it is preserving. Both happen quietly. The compounding difference shows up over decades. In this episode: - The personal story Robert has not told publicly before: what happened in the first week of his Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching certification in 2018 - Why over twenty years of "receiving feedback well" was actually a sustained performance of receptiveness with internal defense underneath - The shift from feedback to feedforward, and why one is past-focused and the other is future-focused - Three things average leaders reject and why each one feels reasonable in the moment - Three disciplines that distinguish leaders who keep developing well into their sixties from leaders who plateau in their forties - Why the explanation attached to a…

People in this episode

Host: Robert Adams

Topics covered

• leadership
• feedback
• self-awareness
• personal development
• performance
• coaching

Keywords

• feedback
• feedforward
• leadership development
• self-awareness
• performance
• coaching
• average leaders
• great leaders

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