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What is your strategy for handling negative feedback about your research fro...
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Negative feedback from colleagues, while sometimes hard to hear, can significantly improve your work. Yet it is easy to feel defensive. How do you process and use critical feedback constructively?
Frank Nelson, Edward Harris and 32 others7 Comments-
Try to separate the feedback from your personal feelings about the work.
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Try to separate the feedback from your personal feelings about the work.
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Ask clarifying questions if you do not fully understand the criticism.
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Look for the underlying concern even if the feedback is poorly expressed.
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Look for the underlying concern even if the feedback is poorly expressed.
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Thank the colleague for the input regardless of whether you agree.
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Take time before reacting, then decide what is genuinely worth acting on.
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