6 Cs: Seeks professional feedback and acts on it - Ramon Balderrama
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Welcome to LEAD Weekly
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This is LEAD Weekly. Practical tips to help you grow as a leader.
We're in the series about the 6 C's of leadership,
exploring the skills you've identified.
Today you will hear from Ramon, who worked at Rancho de los NiƱos.
and is now the Assistant Director
of our Mazatlan site. He will be sharing with you
about what it means to seek professional feedback and act on it.
I'm going to share a little bit about professional feedback.
And how this can help you have more clarity in your role.
I think professional feedback is a very important skill.
If you need clarity and if you need
understanding, putting this skill into practice
will help you. Try going and asking
a co-worker if what you are working on is a good idea.
Tell them what you are working on and ask for their feedback.
It will help you see new points of view.
It will help you understand better
and it will help develop you as a person.
It also helps you develop in your role, and with
programming. It can help you in a situation when you are sometimes stuck.
Personally, I think seeking feedback
is something that we can all develop.
If we don't put it into practice, it costs us work time,
and it's hard for us to learn how to be better.
At times, I have had a hard time putting this into practice because of what I have been told.
Sometimes I'm already committed to my idea.
I already like what I'm doing
and how am I doing it. But when you change,
and you start to do something differently,
you begin to understand that
the feedback you are receiving is
for the things you are working on and not towards you. That helps you
prioritize things and put things into practice.
One of the things that helped me a lot
was when Antonio Garcia
commented on a question I had. He told me
that if he understood the why, the when, the where, the why
and how, he would be able to help me.
These questions would help me figure out what was
working and how I could do the task in a better way.
When I look for feedback,
I try to remember those questions.
It doesn't always come naturally to me,
but when I do remember, I realize that
it helps me complete what I haven't yet seen.
I still struggle
when the feedback is not what I want to hear,
but little by little as
I practice it more, I realize
how much the community
and my co-workers want to support me so I can solve that problem.
I think practicing it in Back2Back is one way.
It is very easy, because it is part
of our DNA. I think as a community
and as a ministry, it's something you can
go ask anybody and they will be willing
to support you. So I invite you to put it into practice,
work on it and
get out of your comfort zone,
and try to do it.
Because you are going to see the fruits of the feedback.
Thank you very much. See you soon.