Hi everyone and welcome to this week's Squiggly Career Podcast from Amazing If.

I'm Helen Tupper and I'm here with my co-founder, Sarah Ellis.

Hi.

And this week we're going to be talking about feedback, how to give feedback and what to do with it when you actually get it.

And I think feedback's one of those things that we all know

we need, but it can be really difficult to ask for. And it can be really difficult to get feedback

that's actually any use. And there are loads of reasons why I think it goes wrong. Maybe you're not

confident, maybe you're a bit defensive about the feedback you get. Maybe you're not asking for

anything specific. So you get kind of this're not asking for anything specific so you get

kind of this general feedback that doesn't really help you move forward or maybe the people that

give you feedback just aren't very good at giving feedback. So there's lots of things we're going to

talk about today. But Sarah, what's your take on feedback and how important it is? It's massively

important and some feedback that I've had has had a really

big impact on me personally in terms of being able to improve and enjoy what I do a bit more and

help me with all my squigglyness. But I do think it's an area where most people think feedback is

really important and certainly that's what they'll say, but actually the reality isn't great.

So certainly most organisations now recognise that feedback

needs to be incorporated into everybody's day-to-day jobs. And I think that's becoming quite a well-established

point of view that feedback's not just about a once-a-year thing where you ask loads of people

what they think of you and no one can really remember. They can remember last week, but they can't

remember, you know, last year. I can't remember like two days ago. So you can see how that's a

slightly flawed system. But I do think there are very few people and companies where they've got

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