Career The Understated Art Of Receiving Feedback Feedback is a key part of any role and can be transformative for your confidence and your career. But sometimes it can be hard to hear. Here’s how to turn criticism and praise into your biggest assets. By Natalie Cornish Career Feedback is a key part of any role and can be transformative for your confidence and your career. But sometimes it can be hard to hear. Here’s how to turn criticism and praise into your biggest assets. By Natalie Cornish Previous article ‘You Can’t Be What You Can’t See’: Pushing For Gender Equality In Sport Next article Why Emotional Labour Remains Invisible Imagine an email has just landed in your inbox from your boss. She’s keen to catch up about a project you recently worked on and give feedback. What’s your initial reaction? Maybe you feel tense and anxious? Or instantly write off your efforts as sub-par even though she has praised your work to the wider team? Feedback makes many of us uneasy. “It can feel threatening,” London-based career coach and psychologist Dr Perpetua Neo says. “Negative feedback, especially if we’re insecure and sensitive, can feel like an attack on us. And when in threat mode, we tend to amplify how we perceive anything negative. Maybe we ruminate on the more negative parts, or we only hear them selectively because we’re already tense and ready to defend ourselves.” betteryouleadership Best Of Future Women Leaders How this CEO stamps out passive-aggressive behaviours By FW Leaders The six values guiding this former Premier By FW Leadership New FW partnership to boost number of women in cybersecurity By FW Gender diversity Soft Power By Briana Blackett Gender diversity Be honest. Did you think Bluey was a boy? By Briana Blackett Gender diversity Cyber expert laments “lost generation” in online misogyny panel By Sally Spicer Gender diversity Is this at the bottom of your To-Do list? By Briana Blackett Gender diversity The Confidence Gap By FW Your inbox just got smarter If you’re not a member, sign up to our newsletter to get the best of Future Women in your inbox.
