Michele Timms talks about the role of feedback in driving team success

Every month I will speaking to professionals, executives or entrepreneurs about their career, mental health and what makes them successful.

I did this interview sometime ago with Michele Timms, an Australian basketball icon and arguably one of Australia's greatest basketball players of all time. 

As a player, coach and now running a successful elite development academy, Michele Timms Basketball Academy, Michele talks about the importance of feedback in shaping team, and her own, success. 

Michele talks about how feedback from her peers at a young age was critical in her development as a team player.

Michele spoke about the need to have a trusting culture to enable feedback to be effective. "The person you're giving feedback to must believe you have their interest at heart.' She referenced 'the seven values' of the OPALS and how that set a standard that enabled a trusting environment.

Michele talked about the importance of the credibility of the person giving the feedback and the role that Tom Maher had on her career, and his capacity to get the most out of her through critical constructive feedback.

 

Michele also recognized people like getting feedback, a lot more than they like giving it. She discusses how she was not always willing to give feedback but had to learn to adopt her own style in doing so as a senior player and then coach.

You can listen to the full interview at the link below: