Conversation excerpt (YouTube video) featuring Will Humphreys discussing leadership practices in professional teams—focused on feedback, psychological safety, and self-reflection. Speakers emphasize the value of negative (constructive) feedback, leader vulnerability, and resources/mentors that help develop leadership skills.
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The best feedback we can get is negative feedback. Because, I mean, what I think Bill Gates said that. Right. Like, we need to be able to have negative feedback because if you only get positive feedback, there's no way to improve. And so we're firm believers in that here, as hard as it can be sometimes to do that. But we don't feel alone either. And that's been a big thing for our teams.
Yeah, it goes down to safety, right? Like, how do we feel? How do our people feel? Do they feel safe? Do they feel like they can be themselves oftentimes? I know early on when I was not a good leader, I remember being threatened by my team and not knowing how to hire good people that would talk trash behind the scenes. And a great indicator of how our culture is in terms of safety is how we feel as leaders and owners. In my opinion, can I comfortably go to my team and be myself? Can I be silly and serious and all those things? And if I don't feel like I can do that, then. Then I have some work to do around that. And you mentioned some books on the parenting side of things. Were there any resources that you've used over the years that have helped you develop yourself as a leader? Obviously, you've had good mentors in your different companies, but have you ever had any coaching or is there any books that you recommend?