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How do you react to input and feedback?
 Leaders are faced with dozens of decisions that need to be made. As chapters grow, the decisions generally become more frequent, more complicated, and have more serious ramifications. You should gather your members and request input and insight before making decisions. Keep members involved by encouraging input and feedback.
If you want your members to take a more active role in the chapter, listen to what they say.
Shane Metcalf, CCO of 15Five
says that you should
avoid surrounding yourself with people that always agree with you. You need p
eople who are able to strongly argue the other side. Whether you use their advice or not, it will help clarify your decision.
According to an article written by the editor of
Business News Daily website
, a
big factor
in keeping people from stepping up is how leaders react to employee ideas and input. Thirty-eight percent of respondents said that "leaders dismissing ideas without exploring these ideas" is the second biggest reason why people won't take initiative.
By involving members actively in decision making, leaders affirm the value of their chapter members. The members in turn naturally develop deeper commitments to chapter objectives when they help set them and are involved in achieving them by offering input.
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The truth is not always pretty, but true wisdom doesn't see opposition, only opportunity.
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The right response to input and feedback positive or negative is to say, "thank you".
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