Focus on Meat and Potatoes to Learn From Criticism
No matter how you deal with criticism , it is always difficult to hear and even harder to separate the unimportant parts from the feedback you can use. Focus on “meat and potatoes” for actionable steps you can work on.
Separating your emotional response, the person’s tone and relationship with what they’ve told you can be tricky. But it’s helpful to focus on the “meat and chips” of their message so that you get away with things you can do something about instead of being distracted by how you feel or how they got their message across. Even if you’re being criticized by someone who doesn’t know how to give feedback, you can still use this technique to filter out their delivery style and comments that you can’t do anything about, such as company policy or a colleague’s quality of work. …
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