From the course: Asking for Feedback as an Employee

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Feedback is your responsibility

Feedback is your responsibility

From the course: Asking for Feedback as an Employee

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Feedback is your responsibility

- I never want you to be in a position where you've gone three months or six months, or God forbid a year, and you have no idea what your boss actually thinks of your performance. We often think, well, I'm sure everything's going fine and my manager will give me feedback if she has any feedback to give, but your manager's busy and your manager is focused on her career or his career. You have to take ownership of the process. You have to be the person driving the conversation, asking for feedback on a regular basis, so you know how you're doing, how you can improve, and what you maybe need to tweak or adjust along the way. The worst thing you can ever do is get to a midyear performance review or year end performance review and be surprised, like, oh, I didn't see that coming. You need to ask yourself the question on a pretty regular basis, do I know how things are going? Do I know that my manager or boss is really happy…

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