3. Make criticism a gift, never a weapon.
If I am criticizing to help, I am doing it right; if I am doing it to harm, I am doing it wrong.
To keep critical feedback in the first category, the research tells us that it should have five elements:
the care of the recipient in mind;
respectful delivery;
good intentions;
a pathway to improvement;
and appropriate targeting of the recipient’s needs.
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