Modeling How to Receive Feedback

Walking the talk as a leader

Awesome, Less Awesome :: Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash

Think back to your last experience receiving candid and constructive feedback. What happened? How did it feel? Would you volunteer to do it again?

Receiving feedback is hard and uncomfortable. We wrap it up in feedback sandwiches, translate it into ratings, avoid it altogether, and dump it all at once in a year-end performance review. We want to make it…