What Does Good Feedback Get You?
We love to be told how great we are. Admit it. Someone has probably expressed admiration for what you do, and you’ve probably basked in it. It’s a lot harder to deal with honest feedback. In chapter 8 of Your Best Just Got Better, Jason Womack takes us on a tour of ways to define feedback and ways to make it more useful. On page 159, he offers the Wikipedia definition of feedback: “Feedback describes the situation when output from (or information about the result of) an event or phenomenon in the past will influence an occurrence or occurrences of the same.” Here’s why soliciting regular and honest feedback is a good idea. You probably have a self-image that is…