Feedback
Have you ever taken or given feedback. Do you think it is important?
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Yes, it is!.
Why Feedback?
First of all, feedback is not a negative thing, it is sharing your opinion on the other person. It contains both positive and negative things. People usually don’t use the word “negative feedback” instead they use “Constructive feedback”. One of my friends said It’s a present from a well-wisher. Taking feedback will strengthen your confidence, let you know your weak sides and help you to be better. So be thankful to the person who is giving feedback.
What is a good time and good place to give feedback?
According to me, you can give feedback at any time, but it’s better to take permission initially. It’s better if you are exchanging feedback in a private place (or) a place where no other person can hear you.
How to give feedback?
There is no single way to give feedback. As I mentioned earlier it’s about conveying your thoughts about them. But there are some things we need to take care of when giving feedback.
Make it a conversation
I prefer it to be like any other conversation instead of firing points like bullets. So the other person will feel free to take feedback and think about it.
Don’t be aggressive
As I mentioned earlier there is no need to fire the points, you are spending your time to help the other person to be better, so FEEL PROUD 😉.
Not too much feedback at once
It’s not a good idea to dump multiple points at once, It may difficult for your peer to take much at one shot and work on. If you have many points, take a couple of sessions, so it’ll be good to discuss.
Provide solutions and suggestions along with feedback
The wonderful thing you can do is to suggest the fix for what you feel the problem is.
Mention incidents
Mention the incident what made you feel that way, Especially while giving constructive feedback.
Things to follow while taking feedback.
Don’t be defensive
Don’t try to defend when you are getting constructive feedback. It’s good to know your weak sides, not so many people talk about them. If you start defending, the other person may lose interest in giving feedback
Seek clarification if you don’t understand
Ask them to explain more if you didn’t understand. A good question can be “Please tell me an incident which made you feel like that.”
Either you can agree or disagree for the point
There is nothing like you should accept all the point raised by your peer. If you don’t agree with something, feel free to say that
Don’t forget to say “Thank you” at the end with a smile
How to work on feedback?
There is no point in getting feedback and not working on them. So you should do something to get rid of that habit (or) whatever. Anyway, the final call is your’s, whether you want to work on it or not. If you don’t think something is not much important to work on you can ignore it. But try to analyse the impact and then decide.
Recently I got to know a way to format your data while giving feedback, using a mind map. I’ll cover that in my next blog.
That’s it for this blog, Hope you enjoyed it, Feel free to give FEEDBACK.
