Feedback Strategies

The first article I read this week was called 'Be a Mirror: Give Readers Feedback That Fosters a Growth Mindset', by Gravity Goldberg. I found this article quite interesting as it made me think about  my own mindset and how I feel about my own abilities. In this article Goldberg talks about how many of us have a fixed mindset on how well our abilities are, and this often stops us from putting in extra effort as there is not point because our abilities what allow us to achieve this high anyway. In order to change this, he speaks about idea of being a mirror when giving feedback. One of the strategies Goldberg talks about is to focus on what the reader is doing and not what is missing, as a mirror cannot reflect back what is not there.

I enjoyed this article as it made me think about my own mindset and abilities.

https://literacyworldwide.org/blog/literacy-daily/2015/12/08/be-a-mirror-give-readers-feedback-that-fosters-a-growth-mindset

The second article I read was 'Why Do So Many Managers Avoid Giving Praise' by Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman. This article was interesting as it spoke about why feedback is often not given, one of the reasons is because of the anxiety behind the answer and response that they may get back. It was interesting to see how many people avoid giving positive and. negative feedback, when feedback can have such an effect on how people work.

https://hbr.org/2017/05/why-do-so-many-managers-avoid-giving-praise

Feedback Thoughts

The first article I read about feedback was called 'Silence the Critical Voices in your Head' I really enjoyed this article as it made me think what way I take feedback and do I focus more on the positive or the negative. This article was about a man called Rajeev, 'an executive vice president in charge of a billion-dollar business within a high-tech company', and he had the mind set where he could only focus on any negative feedback he was given and couldn't realise that he was given much more positive than negative. 
This article thought me that it is better to focus on positive feedback and really take advantage of your strengths, rather to than to dwell on any negative feedback you were given. I think that article is a real eye opener and it makes you think.
https://hbr.org/2016/12/silence-the-critical-voices-in-your-head

I then read an article called 'Why rejection hurts so much' this article was very interesting as it explained why rejection hurts us so much, and it goes back to the times of hunter gathers, it is engraved in our brains to feel hurt by rejection and scientists have also done tests which shows that 'the same areas of our brain become active when we experience rejection as when we experience physical pain'. This article also talks about how the greatest damage rejection causes is usually self inflected, as we instantly put ourselves down when faced with rejection instead of just moving on and learning from it.
https://ideas.ted.com/why-rejection-hurts-so-much-and-what-to-do-about-it/

I really enjoyed this task as it has made me think about feedback and rejections in a more positive way than I every thought I could have, so I am glad I done this task and have opened up my mindset.

Positive Thoughts