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Leadership assessment interviews: getting honest feedback from your team
Executive overview
Most feedback conversations default to polite diplomacy and miss the truth. Leadership assessment interviews, drawn from the work of Fernando Flores, create a structured invitation for genuine feedback across peers, superiors, and subordinates.
Ask for honesty explicitly, start with strengths, then probe weaknesses without deflecting.
How to run a leadership assessment interview
- Frame the ask: state you're committed to growing and need honest, not diplomatic, feedback
- Request perceptions beyond the individual — ask what others think of you, not just their own view
- Start with strengths: probe what you're great at and fully receive it without deflecting or false modesty
- Accept strengths as real perception, not objective truth, but take them in seriously
- Flip to weaknesses: ask what you're terrible at, what needs work, what you can't be counted on for
- Actively create psychological safety so the other person feels safe being direct
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