Feedback is Essential for Growth!
Growing up, I had my own insecurities and chief amongst them is interacting with people, I disliked anything that made me stand in front of people to talk. So, I took to arts (loved music, rap music, R&B and of course Fuji).
Machines and gadgets were my own form of escapism. Anything but people, I’m fine (LOL) but my outward appearance says something different. Yes, that’s my facade, the front. We all have one.
24 years ago when I started my career as a Telecoms Engineer, all I wanted to do was to solve network problems, deliver projects with less interaction with people. But little did I know that God had a different plan for me. The type that would take me out of my comfort zones, one that would make me do exactly opposite of what I like.
From Telecoms Engineering, I evolved into IT, Project Management, ended up in Management & Tech Consulting, transforming organisations and developing people. All through this transition, one thing became clear to me; “that the success I desire is on the other side of my comfort zone”. Managing stakeholders and relating well with people is key to success.
So, everytime I show up to speak at conferences, facilitate executive sessions, or appear on TV for interviews and it seems natural, it is not, I’m actually facing my demons, turning my weakness into a strength.
Growth comes with pain, far far away from comfort zones. Examine your Johari Window, there are four quadrants:
1. What you know and everyone knows (obvious to everyone)
2. What only you know and others don’t know (your facade, secret place)
3. What you don’t know but only other know and can see (you need feedback here to get better)
4. What you don’t know and others don’t know (this is where you need to UNLOCK, self discovery)
Recently, when the Norwegian Embassy invited me to share insights with them on “Organizational Culture: Giving and Receiving Feedbacks” I simply deployed the Johari Window tool and the Winning Life model in my book – UNLOCK as part of the very interactive session to help the participants.
Thanks to Ota Akhigbe for the referral.
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