Feedback is like oxygen …

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“So what have you learned from doing this 30 day challenge and what’s next?” asked my friend and gifted visual recorder colleague Lisa.

“Well, let me think.” Long pause.

“That you need feedback!” Dave exclaimed.

“I do not!” As that would be needy. Another long pause. “Well maybe a little …”

“Why don’t you use your 30th blog to ask people for some feedback?” Lisa quickly sketched out today’s visual. (Thank you Lisa!)

And so I am, but with some hesitancy, because of course what if the feedback is not what I want? I hear the adult educator in me coaching the oodles of learners with whom I have worked over the years urging them to put feedback in perspective and learn from it, blah, blah, blah …

And as for what’s next, I have already decided I am going for another 30 days as something seems to be happening for me (more on that tomorrow when I list more of what I have learned.)

Unlike my other attempts at blogging, I LOVE doing this. In fact, I would rather do this than any other work I need to do to make a living. Gulp …

Are you guilty of sugar coating?

I ran across a little piece of research that surprised me …Vineet Nayar conducted a flash survey of his social media universe. “What’s the one thing you’d like your boss to stop doing?” he asked on Facebook, Twitter, and HCL’s internal social media platform, Meme. The top response from Gen Y was “to tell it like it is.” Curious about what else he discovered? Watch this space for his other 4!

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