A colleague of mine, I’ll call him Aaron, is a professional dancer who has worked in a international professional dance company for five years. He and I got to talking about his work and the leadership tangles that have presented themselves. As we spoke, I realized that therewere some lessons to be learned for all leaders. Here is the first excerpt of an interview I conducted over a period of several weeks.
Leadership Skills:One on one coaching tips from a professional dancer
Topics:
leadership
communication
decision making
listening
assessment
performance feedback
team effectiveness
language
collaboration
empathy
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5 Reasons it’s So Hard to Give Tough Performance Feedback
There are no two ways about it. It is tough to give good constructive feedback. Not providing clear tough feedback to peers, direct reports, and staff exacerbates performance problem and contributes to situations that tangle forward progress. For example, I’ve had clients whose direct reports continued to come up short in developing product roll-out strategies. Rather than confront that poor performance, senior leaders complained to each other, but not the person. As a result, customers were disappointed and company revenue suffered.
