Why it's so hard to get feedback

Can we talk about how hard it is to get feedback?

Navigating feedback – both the giving and the receiving – makes up a lot of my coaching work. On any given Tuesday or Friday, clients will come to me looking for guidance on how to make sense of feedback they’ve received, or for help around how to give feedback to a team member or client.

In today’s episode, we’re going to focus specifically on receiving feedback, and how to handle all the feelings that come when someone shares their perspective on our work.

It’s tricky, it’s scary and it’s something most of us avoid at all costs.

So let’s bring it out into the light and talk about it.

I’ll start with a story that happened to me a couple of years ago. Trust me, there have been other occasions since, but this particular example encapsulates everything I want to share with you about feedback.

A few years ago, I released a new product into the world called Communicate Like a PRO. It was an idea that had been in my ‘someday’ pile for over a year, and I finally said, “Ok, enough. Create the damn thing already.”

So I did. And then came the feedback…

Enjoy the episode!

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