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Overcoming Defensiveness

Overcoming Defensiveness

Overcoming Defensiveness

  • Media type: Article
  • Time Investment: 5 - 7 minutes
  • Date Added: 05/2010

A big part of why receiving feedback is so challenging is because so few people around us know how to give feedback untainted with criticism, judgment, or our personal upset. But, if we wait for others to offer us usable, digestible, manageable feedback, we will not likely receive sufficient feedback for our growth and learning. Instead, we can grow in our capacity to fish the pearl that’s buried within. Here are three specific suggestions for how.

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