Positive impact of the best feedback we receive in our life.

Continuing from yesterday where I shared a mind map that captured the details of the best feedback the participants received in their life, today I want to share the impact those feedbacks had on the participants.

 

Here is a Jamboard where I have captured the positive impact of those feedbacks even as some of those feedbacks were an act of tough love.

 

People don’t dismiss tough feedback when it is received from a person they have come to trust, respect and admire and to whom they have entrusted the right and duty to hold the recipient to a higher account.

 

One such person in my own life is Vikas Badhwar - my former NCC drill instructor in college.

 

In that sense, I always ask a question to my participants in my sessions on feedback skills: Have we earned the right to give feedback?

 

This involves mastering the competence part of it and mastering the character part of it. One without the other is pointless. Merely mastering the competence part of it is useless if our feedback is not having the desired effect.

 

One of the essential assignments I give the participants to work on is to explore the ways and means by which they can first connect with their team members and earn their trust before their feedback is received well.

 

Merely mastering the skill of giving feedback will not suffice.

 

With due thanks to all the participants who contributed to that session, I have a question for everyone who has read so far.

 

What are some of the best feedbacks you have received in your life and how have you become the better as a result?

 

I will be grateful to learn from you.

 

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PS: The third and final part in this series on feedback will come tomorrow when we make it light rather than making light of it. :)