Becoming a Better Receiver

Feedback is essential for succeeding, no matter what level of the organization you occupy. Unfortunately, people are not very good at

either giving or receiving feedback. This activity is important because being a good receiver of feedback is essential for developing

career readiness.

The goal of this activity is to challenge your knowledge of the five steps for becoming a better receiver.

For each scenario, select the step for becoming a better receiver that the example best represents; or$,$ if the example does not

represent a step, select "Does not represent a way to be a better receiver."

Rayah reminds herself that when receiving negative feedback, she has a propensity to blame others for her mistakes.

Rainer decides to hide his anger after receiving negative feedback from his superior and he stops listening to the feedback.

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Edie focuses on what she might be able to learn from her boss during her performance review.

Francis schedules a meeting with her boss to ask if he would list one thing that he thinks she could do a better job with on her

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Mohammed feels angry about the negative feedback he received from his boss. He allows himself to feel his emotion and decides

to ask his boss a few clarifying questions to be sure that he understands exactly what is being communicated.

Sophia remembers that even if she is certain that her boss' intentions are simply to undermine her confidence, she should use any

and all feedback to develop and improve her work performance.

Practice being mindful

Duncan doesn't like his supervisor's choice of words in telling him he's doing a poor job on a project, but he agrees that the core of

his sunervisor's messace$-$that he's not doind a great job$-$is accurate.

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Jamir asks his supervisor if she could tell him one thing that she thinks he is doing exceptionally well in his current job.

Spencer practices silently meditating for $15$ minutes each day before he goes to work.

After receiving negative feedback about her work performance, Antonina reminds her boss of similar mistakes he has made in the

past.

Imogen makes a concerted effort to be completely present and nonjudgmental during an uncomfortable conversation with her

superior.

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Instead of being overly self$-$critical after receiving some negative feedback during their performance review, Freya maintains their

sense of self$-$worth while asking their supervisor, $"$Am I correct that you feel that I could be devoting several more hours to my core job

responsibilities each week?"

During his performance review, Neale remembers that while he normally wants to disagree with any negative information about

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Ask for feedback

Practice being mindful

Identify your tendencies

Try self$-$compassion instead of defensiveness

Learn how to listen

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