Leadership in Action: Doors of Perception: Getting Others to Notice the New You

THANK-YOU NOTE

Feedback is an important gift for leaders. They can measure its value partly by the increased self-awareness it gives them. They have learned something about themselves that they didn't know before or something about their impact on others that they didn't realize before.

For leaders, communicating their appreciation to those from whom they have received feedback can also be an opportunity to market the changes they are making and to invite further feedback and assessment.

One possibility is to gather the people who have completed a written assessment of you, perhaps as part of a 360-degree evaluation given for developmental rather than appraisal purposes, and tell them something like this:

I appreciate the feedback you have given ...