How good are you at receiving critical feedback?
How good are you at receiving it from people you lead or supervise?
Would those individuals agree with your answer?
Formally or informally, have you communicated you’re willing to receive critical feedback?
It’s happened to you. You had meetings planned, objectives to complete, and even a few “I hope to get to” projects in your head. You had scheduled them neatly on your calendar.
Then it happens.
Something outside your control enters your life, and messes with your best intentions. Your day is now subject to a sky-is-falling mentality.
There is hope when navigating around these sky falling occurrences
Whether it’s a root canal, a funeral you must preach, your kid getting expelled, or a staff member who makes a really bad choice, we’re all faced with sky-falling, day-killing, time-eating, occurrences.
But those who steward their time well can encounter these moments and still manage them because they’ve set sky-falling mitigations in place. Such as…
My assistant knocked on my door and named the person on the phone who’d like to speak with me. I was awaiting a conference call and couldn’t take the call. But as I thought about why this person was calling, negative thoughts entered my mind.
The person calling is a wonderful person who serves on a team leaders of our church who help govern our church. I’d been in a meeting with this person the night before. My mind raced, “what did I say that could’ve made them mad?” “Did I cut them off while they were talking?”
I later returned the call and braced myself to hear what they had to say. What they had to say…