Friday, June 26, 2009

Giving Negative Feedback


Feedback is very important for every person whether its related to personal or professional life, it always say what is better for us like what step we have to follow and were we are standing and how we can improve our self. So in my opinion whether it’s a positive feedback or negative feedback, it’s a feedback. Because if we are getting positive feedback, we should not stop there, we should continuously move on and try to develop and learn more things in life. And if we get negative feedback, we should never feel low as it is part of our life. No one is perfect in this world, even most intelligent person also do a lot of mistake. Therefore whenever we get negative feedback, we should always try to learn from those mistakes and always appreciate those people who have given negative feedback to us as they are giving chance to improve our self. There are many people who always say good thing about you whether it’s genuine or not but there are only few people who always give genuine feedback. So we should always try to appreciate those people who are giving a genuine feedback to us and also improving our life.

A positive feedback can be given anywhere as we are saying something good about the people to whom we are giving feedback. But giving negative feedback to the people, we have to really take care of certain things as we don’t want that the people should get hurt or feel low in front of everyone like:

Select Time and Place: Before giving negative feedback, we should always choose time and proper place. Doing wrong things at wrong time and at wrong place always have a bad impacts or negative effect. So in order to avoid worst circumstances, we should always know what the right time is and correct place to give negative feedback. Therefore Time and Place plays a very important role for giving negative feedbacks.

Cut to the Chase: Another most important thing we should consider while giving negative feedback is that, we should always cut our barrier with the person to whom we are giving negative feedback. As we always say “The closer you are, the more familiar you will be”. Therefore in order to give negative feedback, we should always try to build a familiar relationship before delivering our words, which make comfortable or easier to people also to listen our point more accurately and carefully. So making people to be comfortable is very important before delivering your words and this can only be happen when we are familiar with them.

Equally involvement from both of the end: There always be equally involvement should be there from both the side. It should be not like the person who is giving negative feedback, they should continuously speak, it’s the responsibility of them also to listen to the point what other people are saying. In order to make conversation more effective and reach to a better solution of the cause of the problem, a conversation should always be there from both the side.

Every cloud has a silver lining
Giving negative feedback is never going to be easy, but it can be less painful. Be sure about why we are giving the negative feedback, plan when and where we will give it and be ready to listen.