How To Receive Feedback

Life Kit

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🗓️ 2 September 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Receiving feedback doesn't necessarily have to be terrifying, according to Shanita Williams, a feedback coach, professor and author of Feedback Mentality.

In this episode, Williams and Stacy-Marie Ishmael, a writer and editor, provide five tips to make receiving feedback a little less scary and something that's just part of doing the work.

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0:00.0	You know, we love hearing from you, LifeKitListener.
0:04.8	Our team loves getting your questions and all your random tips.
0:08.0	Well, we want to hear more from you.
0:10.3	We've got a short survey we'd like you to complete.
0:12.2	It's at npr.org slash LifeKit Survey.
0:15.6	Your input will help us get a better sense about how to make this show even better.
0:19.4	Again, you can take the survey at npr.org slash LifeKit Survey.
0:27.4	I'm Julia for Lawn and this is npr.org's LifeKit and at the mere mention of an annual review,
0:32.9	my blood runs cold.
0:36.6	One of the scariest things a person could ever say to me is, hey, can I give you a little
0:42.2	feedback?
0:45.2	Maybe it also gives you an icy sick feeling in the pit of your stomach?
0:48.5	I don't know.
0:49.5	So oftentimes we sit in these conversations and we're just like hurry up, hurry up, hurry
0:53.8	up.
0:54.8	We don't say anything.
0:55.8	Or.
0:56.8	We don't even have to worry about it.
0:57.8	Just like sort of like silent.
0:58.8	Don't even breathe.
0:59.8	I think that I, I often, I just like don't, I stop breathing.
1:02.8	I'm just like, okay, like just go get it.
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