Exploring Positive Intelligence with Kimberly Wiefling

The Experimental Leader

It was such a joy to be here with Kimberly Wiefling. She's such a clear leader in her field. I love how she brings in evidence-based models for leadership.

And it's so interesting how she talks about feedback loops, which we discussed in the experimental leader. How do you learn about yourself as a leader? How do you take in information and learn? And then how do you figure out how it's impacting others because leadership is. So it's a circle; you're learning and leading or influencing others with your leadership.

So you also want to hear from them about how you're doing. So ask, Hey, I've been inquisitive. I've been trying to say this in meetings. How's that landing for you? So ask specific questions. Don't ask broad like, hey, how do you think I'm doing in my leadership?

Leadership can be a little lonely. And so, New Leaders often want way more feedback than they naturally get. One thing I hear from new leaders is that nobody tells me anything. It's like they don't get the feedback they're used to getting from having a boss at a lower level in an organization.

So part of learning to be a good leader is learning to quiet that voice in yourself. But on a systematic level, you can ask for feedback. So you don't want to overtax your people by asking for feedback too often, it makes you seem needy, and you can regularly ask for feedback. And over time, learn about your leadership.

So you don't want them to have you don't want to have been trying to get your ego massaged from feedback. You want to be learning about what you can do better.

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