Understanding How We Handle Feedback
Understanding and communicating how we handle feedback can help maximize growth opportunities.
Things That Get in the Way of Understanding Feedback
In Stone and Heen’s Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well, they discuss three feedback triggers: truth, relationships, and self or identity. These obstacles also provide important information that can be used to help manage our reactions and better understand the feedback.
Receiving Feedback Resources
Tips, takeaways, reflections, and resources from the Gift of Feedback: How to Receive and Evaluate it Effectively session on Jul 11, 2023.
Analyze the Feedback you Receive
It helps to list what you think is wrong or unfair about feedback so you can then be open to thinking about what is right or possible.