The Essentials: Getting the Feedback You Need

Women at Work

Harvard Business Review

Entrepreneurship, Workplace, Business/management, Business/entrepreneurship, Progress, Resources, Gender, Equality, Business/careers, Women, Hbr, Careers, Management, Business, Harvard, Human

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🗓️ 23 January 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

We need actionable, useful feedback to grow and advance professionally. But our guest, an aerospace engineer, hasn’t received any of that for years, and she feels like she’s missing out on information that would clarify her standing at her company and secure her future success there. We bring in Ella Bell, an expert on interpersonal communication and organizational behavior, to offer advice, including suggestions on how to respond to, make sense of, and act on feedback you receive.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Women at Work from Harvard Business Review.
0:05.3	I'm Amy Gallo.
0:08.2	Receiving actionable useful feedback is typically essential to professional growth and advancement.
0:14.1	If you aren't getting examples of your greatness in action or suggestions for how to be even
0:19.5	better, the conventional wisdom is that you won't have the information you need to keep
0:24.6	improving and moving up.
0:27.3	Jasmine Laflore is sort of the exception.
0:31.1	She's a rocket scientist who just stepped into a new role after her latest promotion.
0:36.2	She went from principal project engineer to senior principal engineer.
0:40.7	Jasmine, by the way, averages like one promotion every two years.
0:45.3	Yet, she hasn't received high quality feedback in most of her roles.
0:50.4	I like feedback, so I feel like I don't get enough of it and what I do get it is based
0:56.1	around collaboration or maybe just being organized, but not necessarily the leadership
1:02.2	that I'm showcasing.
1:04.5	Neither has she been able to draw out much feedback from her virtual assistant or the apprentices
1:09.9	at the nonprofit she runs.
1:12.2	Yes, on top of her day job as a rocket scientist, she also leads an organization.
1:18.0	It's called Greater Than Tech, and she goes into schools and teaches girls about engineering
1:23.4	and entrepreneurship.
1:25.7	You may actually remember Jasmine.
1:27.4	She appeared in a previous episode of The Essentials, the one on delegating effectively.
1:33.4	When we were recording it, she slipped in a question not quite on the topic of delegation.
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