Appreciate you sharing! Fwiw, when I lived in the Bay Area, I have gone to several events for VP+ Marketing leaders in which each person had only 1-2 people per company. E.g. I was the only person from my company. So I think that option can work, although I don't know enough about your audience to know if it would work well for them.
“I want to be completely transparent, last night’s event in my opinion was a complete disaster.”
This is one of the essential skills that separates average leaders from great leaders - that statement above gives you absolutely no feedback on how to improve. And it's not that you dismiss it outright, as many people do, it's that you have to extract the information from the response.
"Why do you think last night's event was a complete disaster?"
Was it the venue? Did we not have the attendance we wanted? Did we do a poor job of presenting? Did we do a poor job of engaging? Did we do a poor job selling? Did we dislike the food? Did the attendees dislike the event?
It's super easy to fold when you get what I call "shit feedback" but the better leaders extract what they really meant from the words they chose to use. And that's where you can improve.
Leadership is about influence, performance and engagement.
Influential Leaders drive growth, through confidence, not arrogance, because confidence is about WE and arrogance is about ME. So owning the failures shows your confidence in yourself but also your team. It is also a way of keeping unproductive statements like "complete disaster" away from the team and translating it into "here's how we make these better" which is a more positive approach.
The lesson today is about Accountability and in the Growth Mindset, Accountability comes before being Opportunistic because Accountability enables calculated risk taking and that only occurs when the leader holds themselves accountable for everything.
You're on the right path. Leaders who convert failures and setbacks into learning and development stand head and shoulders above those who deride and flood their team with negativity.
Our company does a good job of providing actual feedback, so the person who shared that first line with me had a solid amount of supporting details alongside it (just didn't share for obvious reason :) ).
That said, it's all about learning. I'm not a field marketer. I honestly don't enjoy field marketing/logistics planning. It's not fun for me, but if we want to grow, we have to first principles everything so we can figure out what works *for us and our market*, which means we're going to not get a lot right early on as we figure out what does work long term.
Appreciate you sharing! Fwiw, when I lived in the Bay Area, I have gone to several events for VP+ Marketing leaders in which each person had only 1-2 people per company. E.g. I was the only person from my company. So I think that option can work, although I don't know enough about your audience to know if it would work well for them.
Ahh good to know. Yeah our hypothesis is that it's going to vary by event type. Open bar/networking vs. exclusive exec dinners, etc.
“I want to be completely transparent, last night’s event in my opinion was a complete disaster.”
This is one of the essential skills that separates average leaders from great leaders - that statement above gives you absolutely no feedback on how to improve. And it's not that you dismiss it outright, as many people do, it's that you have to extract the information from the response.
"Why do you think last night's event was a complete disaster?"
Was it the venue? Did we not have the attendance we wanted? Did we do a poor job of presenting? Did we do a poor job of engaging? Did we do a poor job selling? Did we dislike the food? Did the attendees dislike the event?
It's super easy to fold when you get what I call "shit feedback" but the better leaders extract what they really meant from the words they chose to use. And that's where you can improve.
Leadership is about influence, performance and engagement.
Influential Leaders drive growth, through confidence, not arrogance, because confidence is about WE and arrogance is about ME. So owning the failures shows your confidence in yourself but also your team. It is also a way of keeping unproductive statements like "complete disaster" away from the team and translating it into "here's how we make these better" which is a more positive approach.
The lesson today is about Accountability and in the Growth Mindset, Accountability comes before being Opportunistic because Accountability enables calculated risk taking and that only occurs when the leader holds themselves accountable for everything.
You're on the right path. Leaders who convert failures and setbacks into learning and development stand head and shoulders above those who deride and flood their team with negativity.
Lesson learned.
Our company does a good job of providing actual feedback, so the person who shared that first line with me had a solid amount of supporting details alongside it (just didn't share for obvious reason :) ).
That said, it's all about learning. I'm not a field marketer. I honestly don't enjoy field marketing/logistics planning. It's not fun for me, but if we want to grow, we have to first principles everything so we can figure out what works *for us and our market*, which means we're going to not get a lot right early on as we figure out what does work long term.