About this episode

Robert Adams discusses the importance of understanding how your team perceives your leadership and the gaps that may exist between self-perception and team perception.

This week's Play: Ask what your team says when you leave the room. Your team is reading you more accurately than you are reading yourself. In this episode of A Student of Leadership, Robert Adams shares what happened during the first month of his Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching certification in 2018, when he asked his own team for the first time what they would suggest he do differently. The picture they were holding of his leadership was significantly more accurate than the picture he had been carrying of himself, and the work of closing that gap began in that month. The team has a vantage point on your leadership that you do not have. The gap between their picture and yours is, in most cases, the most important blind spot of your career. In this episode: - Why most leaders never see the picture their team has been forming of them - Robert's personal story from the first month of the Goldsmith protocol: three things he was wrong about and how he learned it - The Place Setting Framework's Glass as clarity about how you actually land - The three patterns your team is watching that you cannot see from inside your own leadership - The one question that surfaces the…

People in this episode

Host: Robert Adams

Topics covered

• team dynamics
• leadership feedback
• self-awareness
• coaching
• blind spots

Keywords

• leadership
• team feedback
• self-image
• coaching certification
• blind spots
• engagement survey
• AI limitations

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Marshall Goldsmith Stakeholder Centered Coaching

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