How can you use peer evaluation to improve your Thought Leadership in a remote work environment?

In my experience, peer evaluation plays a pivotal role in enhancing your Thought Leadership journey in multiple ways. Engaging in peer evaluation demonstrates a commitment to learning and growth, bolstering your confidence, credibility, and reputation within your field. It expands your network, exposure, and influence by connecting you with other Thought Leaders and potential followers in your niche, fostering collaborative opportunities and further establishing your position as an authority in the domain.

The best feedback is the type you can feed back into yourself or the organization. ?? When you have the courage to gather this info from your peer and actually listen to understand and implement, then everybody in the remote workforce and the organization wins. ?

Utilizing peer evaluation can greatly enhance our thought leadership in a remote work setting by implementing 1. Regular Feedback Loops: This helps us receive valuable input on our thought leadership initiatives and collaboratively refine our ideas. 2. Embracing Diversity: This helps in getting multitude of insights and ideas. 3. Highlighting Strengths: This helps in identifying our strengths and weaknesses, allowing us to capitalize on our strengths and address any areas for improvement in our approach. 4.Promoting Collaboration: This encourages a culture of collaboration 5. Continual Growth: We can use peer evaluations to continuously improve our thought leadership strategies and fine-tune our ideas for ongoing success.

Peer evaluation is a great way to receive feedback on your ideas & thoughts. - the process makes your leadership more inclusive & wide ranging - it evolves your concepts - it can help you get clarity on certain preliminary ideas / doubts - it can even help you grow your network through peers

My view is that no matter how good you are in a given topic, there's almost always a fresh perspective adding value to your thought leadership, especially when they come from your peer group. For example; You can't see everything - there are areas you may not have considered, doing so will open up to new ways to looking at the same topic. Enriches your perspective - as your peers come from different capabilities, learnings, backgrounds and experiences, their unique perspective will help you sharpen and enrich your own perspective. Tools - Certainly make use of collaboration tools like Slack, Zoom, G-Drive to exchange notes, share documents and catch-up for virtual coffee sessions.

In my experience, it's crucial to prioritize empathy and understanding, acknowledging the effort and intentions behind the work being evaluated. This can foster a supportive environment and encourage growth rather than discouragement. Lastly, continually refine your evaluation skills by seeking feedback on your own evaluations and learning from the feedback you receive, aiming for continuous improvement in your ability to assess and provide valuable insights to your peers.

Provide peer evaluation with constructive feedback is key. It's important to use a learner mindset to listen and understand the person's perspective with respect. Ask for clarification to gain an objective view first, then provide your thoughts with specific and relevant feedback that can help to enhance their thought leadership skills. Acknowledge what's done well and highlight areas for improvement can enrich the experience on both ends.

The trick is to understand the difference between criticism and feedback. Always start with the positives... Follow it by.. have you considered this and then say what you want to say and then explain why you think it matters... Let me use the paragraph given above to show how this can be done... Here it is... It is really insightful and very practical to suggest things that one should do when evaluating peers. It will also be helpful to consider your tonality and approach when you provide your view. Ensure that your comments are constructive and do not come across as criticism. Why is it important?? We get defensive when we are criticized and there is a danger of missing the key message getting lost as a result of the evaluation.

Remember that it is only an opinion or an alternate point of view. It is not an attack on your line of thinking and certainly not an attempt to put you down. Always isolate the crux of the feedback for you to consider. I said consider for a reason. When you ask feedback everyone has a take on it. If you are asked to review one aspect by many people then that is something that you need to act. If it is a good point or an alternate perspective that you haven't considered, be thankful and embrace it. If it falls in neither category, thank the person and act on it, if and when you feel that it is important.

Balance inquiry against advocacy to fully understand feedback and perspective(s). It’s important not to consciously or subconsciously influence or direct the conversation as you might miss meaningful cues. It’s feedback time, not airtime.

In the past I was very against this, as so many are not very good at being constructive with their thoughts and evaluation. But finding the right group of people to help make you better and stronger is a key achievement for any leader. Remember, you don't have to answer to everything or make massive changes, sometimes it is just good to think on it and make internal changes first. Those usually show outwards very soon after.