Feedback is something that I am no good at. I am no good at either giving or receiving feedback. I tend to find myself receiving feedback a lot, especially in my job. My job requires me to receive feedback from my leaders and from my coworkers. I am bad at it. I tend to try and close off and push it aside. I hate feedback for sure. That does not stop me from receiving it. But reading these articles helps me to understand how I can better receive feedback without shutting myself off in the process. My thought about feedback can change from what it was, I can learn to see feedback as a state not a trait. Knowing that my trait, my characteristics, are not being brought into question, but my state instead is what is being brought into question is much better for me to know. My state, my work, is what is receiving the feedback, which rightfully should because we always have room for growth, is better to know. Knowing that I can relax, because I know it is not an attack on my, but instead a growth process that I can use. On the other hand, I suck at giving feedback to others also. I need to learn to be more specific, maybe quoting the person I am giving feedback to. Usually I just say, “you said… I think…”. But according to Goldberg in her article “Be a Mirror: Give Readers Feedback That Fosters a Growth Mindset”, I should be more direct and specific, really getting into what the person said, quoting what they said, so that they can better know what I am trying to tell them through my feedback. Also I think that I just need to be a little less nice in the sense that I do not want anyone to be hurt by what I have said to them.
Be a Mirror: Give Readers Feedback That Fosters a Growth Mindset
By Gravity Goldburg
5 Tips For Taking Feedback Like a Champ
By Megan Bruneau
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