It might sound nice to never get any critical feedback from your boss, but it can actually be a bad thing.
My guest on this week’s episode of the Ask a Manager podcast is in that position and wants to know how to draw more feedback out of her manager. The show is 21 minutes long, and you can listen on Apple Podcasts, Google Play, Spotify, Stitcher, or wherever else you get your podcasts (or here’s the direct RSS feed). Or you can listen right here:
Here’s the letter:
I’ve been in a department head role that I enjoy and suits me well for about 1.5 years. I took a somewhat lateral move to join this company for this job after being fairly aggressively recruited as part of their ‘corporate succession planning’ (their words). The idea is that I will eventually replace my boss, who is a member of the C-suite and in his mid-50s. The good news? It’s going great! I get tons of good feedback, lots of autonomy, and have a great relationship with my boss, team and coworkers. In the first several months after joining, he twice made comments about how he sees me someday succeeding him if I remain interested and that everything was going well. Great!
So, to my issue, which is… I never really get any negative feedback. I know that sounds like a great problem to have, except that no one is perfect – and I’m not some mystical unicorn that somehow is! I’m also self-aware enough to know there’s a lot, especially industry related, that I don’t know in depth yet and want to improve on. While I’m quite happy in my role now and not looking to advance or move for several years, I also want to be strengthening my future possible candidacy for his role.
I have had official development meetings as well as ad hoc feedback on projects and reports. There’s just never any feedback to change anything I’m doing! I hesitate to provide too much specificity in naming what I think are my deficiencies (feels like self-sabotage if he hasn’t noticed?), but I want to know how he and the other executives see my weaknesses. Can you help me articulate the right wording to basically say, “hey! Tell me what you think I’m bad at!” My thought was a script along the lines of: “I’m glad to hear everything is going well. Do you see any areas that I should be focusing on developmentally that may otherwise prevent me from advancing?” Thoughts?
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how can I get more feedback from my boss? was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager.
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