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Obtaining constructive feedback

Obtaining constructive feedback

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Obtaining constructive feedback

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Feedback can be invaluable, but too often, it's not given well, and it's not that constructive. Sometimes feedback is vague, especially when it's positive. So something like great work or well-shared meeting, but you actually have no idea of what you specifically did well. And negative feedback, on the other hand, tends to be much more detailed. Now we have a natural negativity bias, so we will automatically be drawn towards the negative feedback, and having vague positive feedback is not helpful with that bias. Now I get lots of feedback on training that I provide, and it's thankfully largely very positive, but my brain will automatically be drawn to the one comment that is perhaps a little less positive and dwell on that. But we need feedback to learn and grow, and you don't want to wait until the end of your 90 days to receive it in a review, and you don't want to be second-guessing either what that feedback might mean. So you need to know sooner than that how you are doing. But…

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