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Being told no to feedback.

Part 2.

Here we go.

This cast answers these questions.

What do I do if my direct refuses feedback?

How do I do if my direct refuses feedback?

How do I do if my direct continues to refuse feedback?

How can I document feedback efforts

if a direct keeps saying no?

If you want answers to these questions and more, keep listening.

All right, Mark, well, we assume the first know is genuine, right? That's, we've got to.

Yeah, exactly. Now, what about after asking somebody if you can give them feedback and the answer no a second time and a second consecutive time right?

Yeah, this is a successive part of it is important. It's only when you get that consecutive no that

would begin to think we might have a problem. You know if you did a frequency

chart it probably looked like roughly 5% of your asks are going to be told no.

And they're random.

Randomness is not a problem at all.

It's going to happen.

You ask, Mike ask me if he can give me some feedback if he's my boss and I say you know I'm walking out at the end of the day or I'm late can we delay can I come by and see in a couple hours that's not a big deal. Okay? But even if we say only 5% of our ask result in a no,

only 5% of those result in a second no.

So we're talking about one out of what every 400 and I think that's a really really liberal estimate because it really depends on the direct. It just does. So even though you've already gotten a know and in your head you're going

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