FEEDBACK from Others - How is it important

As we know failures are to be considered as feedback to revise our strategies, did we realise the importance of receiving feedback from others.

MOST OF THE TIMES IT IS USEFUL
If you can make it easy for them to think you really appreciate and consider their feedback, you'll get lots more. And, that is good, really.

Read following steps to make it easier:


1. Control your defensiveness. Fear of hurting you or having to deal with defensive or justifying behavior make people hesitant to give feedback to another person.

2. Listen to understand. Practice all the skills of an effective listener including using body language and facial expressions that encourage the other person to talk.

3. Suspend judgment. After all, in learning the views of the feedback provider, you learn about yourself and how your actions are interpreted in the world.

4. Summarize and reflect what you hear. Your feedback provider will appreciate that you are really hearing what they are saying. You are ascertaining that you 'are' really hearing.

5. Ask questions to clarify. Focus on questions to make sure you understand the feedback.

6. Ask for examples and stories that illustrate the feedback, so you know you share meaning with the person providing feedback.

7. Just because a person gives you feedback, doesn't mean their feedback is right. They see your actions but interpret them through their own perceptual screen and life experiences.

8. Be approachable. People avoid giving feedback to grumpies. Your openness to feedback is obvious through your body language, facial expressions, and welcoming manner.

9. Check with others to determine the reliability of the feedback. If only one person believes it about you, it may be just him or her, not you.

10. Remember, only you have the right and the ability to decide what to do with the feedback.
Tips:
1. Try to show your appreciation to the person providing the feedback. They'll feel encouraged and believe it or not, you do want to encourage feedback.

2. Even your manager or supervisor finds providing feedback scary. They never know how the person receiving feedback is going to react.

3. If you find yourself becoming defensive or hostile, practice stress management techniques such as taking a deep breath and letting it out slowly.

4. Focusing on understanding the feedback by questioning and restating usually defuses any feelings you have of hostility or anger.

5. If you really disagree, are angry or upset, and want to dissuade the other person of their opinion, wait until your emotions are under control to reopen the discussion.

Shall we implement the above to experience the positive change
To Success

Important Skill to SUCCESS

As you know, we all need a set of different skills to succeed in our endeavours and among those skills communication plays vital role as we use them many a times in each and every day of our life.

Shall we look into the Power of Communication, now

If one were to take a look at some outstanding business leaders, they have an important quality in common. They are all exceedingly good communicators. People like Jack Welch and Tom Peters, to name just two, were great communicators. Their vision and passion would come through clearly, both orally and in their writing.

Every budding manager needs to ask himself, "How good is my communication ability?" Today's youngsters crack the CAT, are amazing in numerical ability and data interpretation.

They do work on their verbal ability as well, but in practice, I suspect that they have miles to go in communication and this is one area where business schools, despite having courses in the area, do little work on.

I am sure if we can develop our skill & excel in Communication then we will achieve our GOALS much faster.

To success

One More important strategy to keep Focus & achieve

I am sure most of us would have prepared action plan for our 2008 GOALS by this time.
Do we have strategy to keep our FOCUS intact till we achieve what we want in our life. Simple strategy is to maintain physical and mental fitness as lack of fitness will affect taking consistent action towards GOAL.

Each and every one of us have unique requirement based on the age, physique etc to maintain our fitness (both physical & mental)which can be easily done through several methods.
My idea of physical fitness is fairly simple - to stretch as many muscles in my body as possible as often as possible. So I shall engage in a variety of exercises with a focus on my internal organs around the navel as they are vital for good health.
Physical exercise coupled with deep and slow breathing help me to oxygenate my aging muscles. Means my body muscles need not just the stretch but the oxygen too. Again I have a range of breathing exercises to rely upon.

Finally but most importantly, I need to calm my mind and control my uncontrolled thoughts. I take refuge in meditation. I just close my eyes and foucs between the two eyes on the middle of the forehead and meditate on nothing. I shall be a silent witness to observing my incoming and outgoing breaths. I shall not take part in any form of thought building. I shall be alert without thinking at all and for atleast 5 minutes at a time for as many times as possible in a day.

Shall we take care of our physical and mental fitness.

To SUCCESS