5 Arts of Giving Feedback to Your Colleagues

Curely many of you want to give input or criticism to your colleagues at the office? However, you encounter an obstacle where you don't want to hurt the feelings of those you want to criticize. As a result, the process of providing feedback from you is not optimal, or you don't even convey it.

In fact, everyone sometimes needs feedback from other people , you know, babes ! Because one of the conditions for an individual to develop is input from the people around him. So, if feedback is not provided, how can someone know where their mistakes are and need to be evaluated? This will ultimately affect performance in a job.

For this reason, let's look at the following 5 arts of providing feedback to your colleagues:

1. Know every impact of feedback

Feedback is necessary because it can have a positive influence, but you have to be aware of the negative influences too. The positive or good influence is that someone can be motivated to become a better individual and is able to increase enthusiasm in completing their work.

On the other hand, the negative or bad effect of delivering feedback is that it lowers the enthusiasm of other people because sentences that are too stiff or tend to be careless by the feeder are considered to hurt their feelings and self-esteem.

So choose words that are wise but still to the point when you want to convey feedback to your colleagues.

2. Position yourself as a 'friend'

Maybe you are in a situation where you want to convey input or criticism to your subordinates or someone younger than you. However, try to convey the input or criticism as if you were talking to a close friend.

In delivering feedback, it is very important to establish good communication with our targets. Correction, criticism, input or praise must be given in an appropriate and efficient manner, not just a matter of superiors and subordinates.

Looking at a survey conducted by Jobstreet , there were 53% of the total 17,623 employee correspondents who admitted to having a boss with a military, partennialist and laissez faire leadership style . What is meant here by paternalism and laissez faire is never giving subordinates the opportunity to develop their creative abilities. In providing feedback, we must be in an environment that encourages the people in it to develop.

3. Change our mindset to something positive

Feedback can be delivered in various forms. There are corrections, criticism, input, or praise. Building a mindset that feedback is something we need in living our lives can also help us when we want to convey feedback to other people.

Know that feedback is given to make ourselves better, not to bring someone down mentally. Feedback should not be given for things that 'meet targets', such as school report cards which are given once every half year. Understand that feedback can be given whenever you see someone needs correction, criticism, input, or praise.

Position yourself as an observer and supervisor here, so that with this frequency the people who get feedback from you will also understand it.

4. Feedback is not a form of one-way communication

As a giver of feedback who wants to give, make sure that the communication currently being carried out is two-way communication. This means that we as givers of feedback should not immediately criticize and bombard the person with criticism. Give them time to respond, and give them time to digest the message we mean.

Reported by the Journal of Palliative Medicine , the key to giving criticism is to have a solution, even though we still ask the person we are criticizing to try to find the answer independently first. This solution is also equipped with instructions, so that other people can understand what we mean and create effective communication.

The criticism we give must also emphasize their work, not their personality so that the person does not feel attacked. Don't forget that you don't have to wait for someone to give you feedback, girls .

5. Be willing to receive feedback from others too

Finally, after we learn how to convey feedback to our colleagues, we must also learn to accept the feedback they give us. Focus on the message conveyed, forget the things that you think hurt you. One thing Cosmo babes need to remember, if we are afraid of receiving feedback from other people, then we will not dare to convey feedback to them.

You can also directly ask other people to be observers and supervisors of your performance. This will certainly speed up your learning process in the world of work that you are currently involved in.

Giving feedback to someone must be considered and done carefully, girls ! However, that doesn't mean you should give up your intention to provide feedback to other people. Try applying the art of conveying feedback above to your colleagues!