What do you do when your boss says, “Please give me honest feedback on how I’m doing”?
Do you:
Feel comfortable and provide open constructive feedback?
Hold back and pretend everything’s okay because you don’t think they can handle the truth
Say little out of fear that any candid feedback will hurt your career?
Most of us fear giving anything but positive feedback. And receiving negative feedback is second only to giving it in difficulty. There’s some evidence that this fear is a natural reaction; our brains may be hardwired to react to negative stimuli. Yet feedback is essential to growth and improvement.
