56: Accepting Criticism

Serious Soft Skills

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Accepting criticism can take the wind out of our sails and hurt our ability to advance in our careers, relationships and in life. We will discuss this complicated soft skill and give hints for delivering and responding to it better in this week’s episode of the Serious Soft Skills Podcast.

Cohosts Dr. Tobin Porterfield and Bob Graham talk about a number of important issues, including:

Why the soft skill of accepting criticism can be difficult to hear
How accepting criticism can benefit us and our development
What happens when we don’t accept criticism
Helping you versus hurting you with criticism
When to discount people’s criticism
Filtering out the good criticism and retaining ownership
Finding people to trust and value who give you constrictive feedback
How to give constructive criticism
When to table someone’s criticism
“The Sandwich Method” of criticism
When a cooling off period pays off for everyone
Preventing criticism from paralyzing us
Why organizations need to integrate feedback and criticism into their operations to become better
Making a case for writing down suggestions, rather than speaking them

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