'We all need people
who will give us feedback. That's how we improve'.
A good garden gives a pleasant feelings to us. So is a pleasant person. Successful people are pleasant. They constantly 're-engineer' and 'redesign' themselves. They are receptive to feedback and open to criticism.
Research shows that successful people are better at
handling negative feedback. I read somewhere that nearly half of the newly
hired people fail within 18 months of their hiring. Out of this nearly 25% of
the people fail because they are not comfortable to listen and accept feedback.
We are human beings and we will make mistakes and
we may not know that we make mistakes. How many of us enjoy the feedback
session of the performance appraisal interview? How many of the managers are
comfortable to give negative feedback to their subordinates without demotivating
them? How many of will walk into our manager's room and ask him to point out
areas where we have to improve? We are comfortable when someone praises us and
sometimes we may also honestly know that we deserve the same!
There is an old couplet in Tamil literature which
says that a king will be destroyed even without an enemy if he is not
surrounded by people who will give him feedback whenever he commits mistakes.
N C Sridharan
www.thetimefoundation.com
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