How To Handle Feedback at Work
How To! with Mike Pesca
Peach Fish Projects
4.3 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2024
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Leigh is a stellar employee by all accounts. She deeply cares about the company's mission. She gets along with her coworkers. She delivers great work. So why does every critique cut deep and leave her questioning her worth? On this episode of How To!: Courtney Martin consults the columnist Alison Green, who answers tricky workplace questions at the advice site, Ask a Manager. Alison helps Leigh figure out what to do with criticism, forge better relationships with higher-ups, and even give better feedback.
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| 0:30.0 | I do care a lot about my work. Everything that I produce is a little bit of me. And so when that's not treated with respect and love, |
| 0:41.4 | like, it's really hard for me to hear that. Okay, here I go. Welcome to how to. I'm Courtney Martin. |
| 0:54.8 | Hey, Courtney, it's Joel in the producer's booth. |
| 0:57.1 | Hey, Joel. Can we have you take that opening line one more time? I'm just kind of looking for a different read on that line. |
| 1:04.2 | Yeah, sure. Any direction? |
| 1:06.0 | Just like, you know, like a little better. |
| 1:08.1 | Oh, okay. |
| 1:29.4 | Welcome to how to. I'm Courtney Martin. Okay, I'm going to stop you right there. Have you heard Carvel do the opening line of the show? Carvel does the opening line of the show great. Yeah, he's so good. Okay. I tell you what, I have a meeting I have to go to. I'm wondering after the show, if you could maybe just listen to a Carvel episode, listen to how he does that line. |
| 1:30.9 | That's, I'd like you to do it. |
| 1:31.7 | But I've got to go. |
| 1:32.1 | Got to run. |
| 1:34.0 | Oh, okay, Joel. |
| 1:34.3 | Sorry. |
| 1:34.9 | See, Courtney. |
| 1:35.8 | Bye. |
| 1:36.2 | Bye. Bye. |
| 1:40.2 | Okay. |
| 1:40.9 | As you just heard, communicating with coworkers can be really fraught, especially when it's your supervisor. |
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