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Responding to feedback

Responding to feedback

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Responding to feedback

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>> You're making an impression and promoting yourself every time you interact with the boss, not just when you're overtly trying to promote something you did. Let's think about promoting you from a different perspective, not when you're telling the boss something, but when they are telling you something. Specifically, when they're giving you some type of performance feedback. The more difficult the feedback is, the more your reaction will speak volumes about who you are. Oddly enough, how you deal with their most challenging feedback could make a huge impression, so let's start by stating the obvious. If you don't like their feedback or if you feel as if they're attacking you unfairly, never attack back. We'll talk about what you can do in a moment, but start by knowing that reacting to negative communication with your own negative communication never helps out and it most often will hurt you. Okay, let's say that somewhat unexpectedly your boss tells you that she thought your big…

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