Last year at this time I was finishing my second residence stay for the University of Guelph’s MA Leadership. The class was personal skills self-assessment and included a challenging component on feedback (including avoiding the “poop sandwich”). Gwyn, thank you for the reminder. The timing is uncanny and the lesson worth sharing widely.
Every once in a while, I like to get back to the basics. The basics for me are always about people and how we relate to each other. This post addresses giving and receiving feedback. I know, it is an old topic but I’ll stop talking about it when more of us get better at it. In the meantime, here it is…again.
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“Feedback is the breakfast of Champions” or so says Ken Blanchard.But I’m wondering how many of us truly have an appetite for it. After all, it has a way of feeling like bad news much of the time.
Why is that I wonder? Well, first of all a very common view of feedback is this. Feedback equals Criticism.
When I looked up the word criticism, here are some synonyms that greeted me…reprehend, censure, reprobate, condemn, denounce. Okay then, I can’t wait to get me…
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