Feedback – dealing with criticism

When we talk about negotiation, we have to talk about feedback.

Not because feedback is a type of negotiation, but because feedback is an important part of working with other people and trying to achieve results together. To work together, we need to correct each other.

Also, feedback is very important for self-improvement. It’s incredibly hard for us to judge ourselves on the things we do since many things we do are not clear and objective. Receiving feedback from other people, such as our peers, and our bosses is extremely important for us to understand whether we’re on the right track.

But feedback also hurts. Not positive feedback, of course. That is always fun to receive. Negative feedback shows that we have been wrong or mistaken, and that hurts, but negative feedback is crucial.

If feedback is important, then negative feedback is even more important! It may be nice and fun to know that we are right. But it can...