Here's how you can gain valuable insights by seeking feedback from colleagues outside of your immediate team.

Participate in mentorship programs that connect you with senior leaders or industry experts outside your immediate circle. These mentors can offer valuable feedback based on their extensive experience.

Collaborate with professionals across various sectors to gather multifaceted perspectives on technological trends and market dynamics. This cross-industry pollination fosters innovative solutions and strategic alignments that anticipate future demands and opportunities.

I agree with this recommendation. In addition to getting feedback from your peers, you will build relationships built on trust and openness. Those relationships, not only expand your visibility of your behavior and its impact, they lead to collaboration and partnership.

Start by reaching out to colleagues in different departments/roles, explaining your goal to enhance your understanding and diverse perspectives. Interact with an open mind, asking for specific feedback about your work, communication style, and any other relevant areas. Also offer constructive feedback in return by focusing on providing balanced and specific insights that can help them as well. This exchange will help you see your work from different angles and also create a culture of collaboration and continuous improvement. By valuing and integrating these varied viewpoints, you can develop a more comprehensive understanding of your organization's dynamics and enhance your overall effectiveness.

Participate in peer coaching circles where professionals from different organizations come together to exchange feedback and insights.

I reach out to colleagues in other departments and ask for specific, honest feedback on my work and decisions. I frame my requests clearly, asking them to highlight both strengths and areas for improvement. By seeking diverse perspectives, I get more balanced and objective insights. I listen openly, without defensiveness, and take their constructive critiques to heart. Reflecting on this feedback helps me grow and refine my approach. This practice not only enhances my leadership but also fosters a culture of continuous improvement and collaboration within the organization.

Use comprehensive feedback tools that gather input from a variety of sources, including peers, direct reports, and supervisors.

Easy! I reach out to colleagues in different departments, valuing their diverse perspectives. I approach them with curiosity and humility, asking for their honest opinions on my work and our projects. By fostering these cross-functional relationships, I gain fresh insights and innovative ideas that I might not have considered. I listen actively and reflect on their feedback, using it to improve my approach and decision-making. This practice not only enhances my leadership but also builds stronger, more collaborative connections across the organization, driving us all toward greater success. I hope this helps!

Seek out or offer to be a mentor within the organization. This not only provides a platform for feedback but also allows for deeper, more meaningful connections.

Effectively gathering feedback from colleagues is essential to fostering a culture of collaboration and growth. Establishing clear communication channels is the first step toward achieving this goal. Consider regular cross-departmental meetings, anonymous surveys, or one-on-one conversations as means of sharing thoughts and concerns. It's crucial to ensure these channels are accessible, and that colleagues feel comfortable using them. Our aim is to create an environment where feedback is welcomed and valued, promoting continuous improvement and strong working relationships. Have you found any particular communication methods to be most effective for gathering feedback? Let's discuss and learn from each other's experiences.

Agreed. What's the point of asking for feedback if you don't do anything with it? The feedback received will help you answer the following questions: 1. Is how I'm perceived aligned with my intentions? 2. Are there any areas I want to change and/or improve? Asking for the feedback, but also reflecting and taking action, is important for building your personal brand as a leader.

Continuous improvement is the key to maintaining relevance in a rapidly changing world. Reinventing yourself every year ensures you maintain this relevance and don’t get caught behind. There is no neutral, you’re either progressing or regressing. As a business leader, this continual reinvention of self forces you to inspect (and sometimes discard) limiting beliefs that may be holding you back from achieving deeper levels of understanding. Opening yourself up to new experiences is critical, as it stretches us and forces adaptation. Ask yourself this question. When’s the last time you did something for the first time? If you have to think about it, you’re sitting in a comfort zone that you may not recognize.

Well I actively seek out feedback regularly, not just during formal reviews. I reach out to colleagues in other departments, asking for their perspectives on my work and our shared projects. By fostering open, ongoing dialogue, I gain diverse viewpoints and identify areas for improvement. I make it a habit to listen deeply and reflect on the feedback I receive, using it to adjust my strategies and enhance my performance. This continuous loop of feedback and growth not only strengthens my leadership but also builds a culture of trust and collaboration across the organization.

Feedback is one of the best ways to broaden your mindset and help you develop as a person and as a professional, especially when this is coming from people not directly working with you. Receiving and giving feedback is part of our behavior as humans, we seek to advise others and we see advice from others too. This means we are seen and heard, therefore people know our work and can assess our contributions. Be open to receiving feedback from different people across the organization; peers stakeholders, senior management. Often they might tell you things you were avoiding to face but until you do face them and overcome them you will come out stronger