"Workplace feedback expert" —Harvard Business Review. I'm a professor at Penn State on a mission to build feedback literacy for all. Nearly 10,000 students in my poetry class. 2,000+ leaders attended my feedback webinar with Harvard. Each week, 3MR offers a reframe to help you live with more clarity and courage.
3MR: Are you an H-shaped professional?
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For decades, the career advice was to become T-shaped: to develop mastery of one domain (the vertical part of the T) and then pair that with a general set of skills (the horizontal part of the T). It was and still is useful advice. But it’s no longer enough. I spent 18 months at Cisco on a project that touched millions of people in 195 countries. The colleagues who moved the project forward weren't the deepest specialists or the broadest generalists. They were something rarer. They had genuine depth in a second domain. And they could seek, receive, process, use, and give feedback across teams in different domains. Picture an H. Two vertical pillars: your primary expertise and a meaningful second one. Two horizontal bars connecting them: one representing the foundational skills everyone needs, the other representing feedback literacy. I wrote about how to build the H for Talent Development Leader.
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"Workplace feedback expert" —Harvard Business Review. I'm a professor at Penn State on a mission to build feedback literacy for all. Nearly 10,000 students in my poetry class. 2,000+ leaders attended my feedback webinar with Harvard. Each week, 3MR offers a reframe to help you live with more clarity and courage.
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