354: What Tough Feedback Is Really Telling You

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Send us Fan Mail This video is about My Feedback can be difficult to hear, especially when it conflicts with how you see yourself. You believe you are confident, but someone describes you as dismissive. You consider yourself collaborative, yet colleagues experience you as closed off. You think you are being decisive, but your team sees you as unwilling to listen. That disconnect may feel unfair. However, it can also reveal one of the most important factors affecting your leadership growth: the gap between what you intend and what other people experience. In this episode of The Mid-Career GPS Podcast, I examine how the leadership perception gap can influence your reputation, professional relationships, promotion opportunities, and career advancement. I am recording this episode after delivering the closing keynote at NextUp’s Rising Stars Conference, where participants used feedback from a 360 assessment to strengthen their leadership development. That experience reinforced something I see repeatedly in my coaching and speaking work. Most mid-career professionals do not lack skill, experience, or commitment. What they often lack is accurate, actionable feedback from people they trus