Career The Understated Art Of Receiving Feedback Feedback is a key part of any role and can be transformative for your confidence and your career. But sometimes it can be hard to hear. Here’s how to turn criticism and praise into your biggest assets. By Natalie Cornish Career Feedback is a key part of any role and can be transformative for your confidence and your career. But sometimes it can be hard to hear. Here’s how to turn criticism and praise into your biggest assets. By Natalie Cornish Previous article ‘You Can’t Be What You Can’t See’: Pushing For Gender Equality In Sport Next article Why Emotional Labour Remains Invisible Imagine an email has just landed in your inbox from your boss. She’s keen to catch up about a project you recently worked on and give feedback. What’s your initial reaction? Maybe you feel tense and anxious? Or instantly write off your efforts as sub-par even though she has praised your work to the wider team? Feedback makes many of us uneasy. “It can feel threatening,” London-based career coach and psychologist Dr Perpetua Neo says. “Negative feedback, especially if we’re insecure and sensitive, can feel like an attack on us. And when in threat mode, we tend to amplify how we perceive anything negative. Maybe we ruminate on the more negative parts, or we only hear them selectively because we’re already tense and ready to defend ourselves.” betteryouleadership Best Of Future Women Equity Inside the shared joke between Gallagher and Wong By Odessa Blain Leadership “Let’s lower the bar”: Why this CEO wants women to do a whole lot less By FW Leadership How three women helped Jane Hume rebuild her life By Odessa Blain Leadership Discovering your leadership style: ‘I’ve had to learn to rise above’ By Odessa Blain Leadership Why Kate Thwaites wants us to stop imagining a better future for women By Odessa Blain Leadership The pivotal moment that changed the course of this CEO’s career By Odessa Blain Leadership ‘I also feel resolve, focus and determination to be part of the change’ By Odessa Blain Leadership The sentence that created a Paralympic champion By Odessa Blain Your inbox just got smarter If you’re not a member, sign up to our newsletter to get the best of Future Women in your inbox.
