The idea
Waiting for an annual review makes growth slow and mysterious. A shorter loop is more useful: choose a behavior, try it in real work, request evidence about its effect, and adjust. The narrower the behavior, the easier it is for someone to observe and for you to practice.
Ask questions that produce actionable information. “Any feedback?” invites reassurance. “Where did my design explanation become hard to follow?” gives a colleague something concrete to examine. Separate the signal from the delivery, decide what experiment it suggests, and return later to check whether the change helped.
Make it concrete
An engineer wants to lead clearer design reviews. After the next review, she asks two participants which decision was least clear and what context was missing. Both point to unstated tradeoffs. For the following review, she opens with the constraints and two rejected alternatives, then asks the same question. The second round shows whether the new behavior worked.
Try it
Pick one skill you want to improve this week. Write one behavior another person can observe and one specific question you will ask them afterward.