GET FEEDBACK AND USE IT TO YOUR ADVANTAGE
Get feedback
And use it to your advantage
Feedback is the breakfast of champions.(Ken Blanchard)
Once you begin to take action, you’ll start getting feedback, advice, help, suggestions, direction, and even criticism that will help you constantly adjust and move forward while continually enhancing your knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and relationships. But asking for feedback is really only the first part of the equation. Once you receive feedback, you have to be willing to respond to it.
There are two kinds of feedback you might encounter, negative and positive. We tend to prefer the positive that is, results, money, praise, a raise, a promotion, satisfied customers, awards, happiness, inner peace, intimacy, pleasure. It feels better. it tells us that we are on course, that we are doing the right thing.
We tend not to like negative feedback – lack of results, little or no money, criticism, poor evaluations, being pines, inner conflict, loneliness, pain. However, there is as much useful data in negative feedback as there is in positive feedback. It tells us that we are off course, headed in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing, that is also valuable information.
In fact, it’s so valuable that one of the most useful projects you could undertake is to change how you feel about negative feedback. I like to refer to negative feedback as information about “improvement opportunities.” The world is telling me where and how I can improve what I am doing. Here is a place I can get better. Here is where I can correct my behavior to get even closer to what I say I want-more money, money sales, a promotion, a better relationship, better grades, or more success on the athletic field.
To reach your goals more quickly, you need to welcome, receive, and embrace all the feedback that comes your way.
(Extracted from: HOW TO GET FROM
WHERE YOU ARE TO WHERE YOU WANT TO BE
And use it to your advantage
Feedback is the breakfast of champions.(Ken Blanchard)
Once you begin to take action, you’ll start getting feedback, advice, help, suggestions, direction, and even criticism that will help you constantly adjust and move forward while continually enhancing your knowledge, abilities, attitudes, and relationships. But asking for feedback is really only the first part of the equation. Once you receive feedback, you have to be willing to respond to it.
There are two kinds of feedback you might encounter, negative and positive. We tend to prefer the positive that is, results, money, praise, a raise, a promotion, satisfied customers, awards, happiness, inner peace, intimacy, pleasure. It feels better. it tells us that we are on course, that we are doing the right thing.
We tend not to like negative feedback – lack of results, little or no money, criticism, poor evaluations, being pines, inner conflict, loneliness, pain. However, there is as much useful data in negative feedback as there is in positive feedback. It tells us that we are off course, headed in the wrong direction, doing the wrong thing, that is also valuable information.
In fact, it’s so valuable that one of the most useful projects you could undertake is to change how you feel about negative feedback. I like to refer to negative feedback as information about “improvement opportunities.” The world is telling me where and how I can improve what I am doing. Here is a place I can get better. Here is where I can correct my behavior to get even closer to what I say I want-more money, money sales, a promotion, a better relationship, better grades, or more success on the athletic field.
To reach your goals more quickly, you need to welcome, receive, and embrace all the feedback that comes your way.
(Extracted from: HOW TO GET FROM
WHERE YOU ARE TO WHERE YOU WANT TO BE
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