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Ask for time and take notes to review later
Ask for time if you need it so you can process the feedback you're getting.
And take notes, or ask the other person for notes so that you can revisit the feedback later on.
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Stay OPEN
- Observe, probe, express how you feel, and then decide on the next steps.
- Check in on how your body is feeling.
- Ask follow-up questions that can clarify the path forward.
- Express how you genuinely f...
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"I think that's where we get it wrong, is that we think any bit of information is meaning that we are less than as a person or that we are unworthy or unfit or incapable. When really, feedback is just information, and you have the power to decide what you do with it."
SHANITA WILLIAMS
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Practice active listening
Check in as the feedback is coming by repeating back and affirming what you've heard.
Active listening gives you a break to process so that you can hear the truth that might be in the feedback without getting so defensive.
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Remember the acronym SIFT
Consider the source, impact, frequency, and trends of the feedback so that you can make a decision about how you want to incorporate it (or ignore it.)
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The power is yours
Remember that you don't have to use every bit of feedback that comes to you.
So if you get some feedback that you don't think is relevant? You don't have to take it in.
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Take both physical and mental notes on what goes on around you.
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- Add as much as you can into the system. You can email yourself things to do, or put them in your calendar, or take quick notes, or take a picture.
- Process it all as fast as you can. Anything you don't need to deal with right now, either mark it done or snooze it for lat...
Make it easy for people to take notes
What we present should correspond to what we want an attentive listener to take down in his notebook.
We should make it simple for people to understand our ideas on the spot. We shouldn't expect them to revisit it later. Even if they do, we won't be there to answer questio...
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