Learning from Feedback and Rejection
Many of you would have gone through the Feedback review, Mid Year Review or Routine Feedback meetings in your career. You would have seen yourselves struggling to make peace with the feedback received and it would seem difficult at times to accept and move forward in your professional life. Nevertheless we have to come in terms with the feedback and keep moving forward. This is one of the most important untaught skills available to each of us. Three times in a row, a salesperson is rejected by one prospect after another. Your manager doesn’t approve your ideas. A customer complains to a company that its website is not working with the browser. You are denied a promotion and an increment. How do we deal with the people who enjoy creating uncertainty? How do we differentiate between constructive, useful insight and the other kind? How do we decide which feedback is actually a clue about ourselves, and which is a distraction?...