Seventeen years ago, I’d earned my first leadership role and become responsible for roughly ten direct reports. Two weeks into the role, my boss took me for a coffee to chat about how things were going.
“I’m not getting what I need from you,” she said.
The statement left no ambiguity, no wiggle room, and no space for interpretation. She let it hang in the air for a moment. When I acknowledged it, she followed it up with direct examples of what she needed and what she was seeing.
I now realize it was the first proper coaching session of my career.
Source: https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/4/be-open-with-difficult-feedback