How Well Do You Take Feedback? How to NOT take Feedback Personally! | Perception Academy

How Well Do You Take Feedback? How to NOT take Feedback Personally!

When I reflect back over the things that had the greatest impact in my life over the past decade, shifting my perception around feedback is easily on the top of that list.


In my experience feedback is an essential tool, if not the most essential tool, for accelerated learning.


When was the last time you were given really high quality feedback? How effective are you at receiving and implementing feedback? How skilled are you at giving transformational feedback to others?


A big issue that prevents individuals, communities, and organizations from accelerated learning is that the skills of effectively giving feedback and receiving feedback are not trained in school or the workplace and most people just never learned how to do this effectively.


The first problem I see with people getting the most out of feedback is that they have a negative relationship with the idea of someone giving them feedback. I know this was the case with me.
When someone would offer me ‘feedback’ I felt it as a ‘criticism’. A form of personal attack. This is a major issue because this frame of mind prevents us from getting outside perspective. It puts one in a defensive state rather than a state conducive to learning.


Over the past decade I have learned to expand that frame of mind understanding other people’s feedback is not about me, it is just their opinion, and at the very best it is about my past behavior.
Now not only do I welcome feedback, I bribe people for it. I ask for it constantly!


One thing that drives me to constantly ask is the belief that “as a fallible human being, with limited knowledge and experience, I can learn so much more and so much faster by getting as many outside perspectives as possible”.


Not all feedback is the same though. There is high quality and low quality feedback, but even the lowest quality feedback can be milked for value if you know how to work it.


Would you benefit from changing your perception of receiving feedback? What would be your best state for receiving feedback?What beliefs would support you in more effectively hearing other people’s opinions/perspectives/perceptions?


If this resonates with you I will be sharing more about feedback in future posts so like this post, stay tuned, and share your comments and questions here: https://www.facebook.com/perceptionacademy/posts/1498782503607238

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