Here it comes. It’s time to sit down with your manager to go over your annual Review. Hopefully, your organization has adopted a more progressive methodology of performance reviews such as quarterly reviews, weekly one-on-ones, and a culture of in-the-moment Feedback so that the dialogue contained in the year-end review is not a big surprise.

Regardless of the approach your company takes, Receiving Feedback is always uncomfortable and stressful. Not exactly what anyone needs right now as you are trying to wrap up the year on a positive note and get ready to hit the ground running in 2024.

Last week during an intense leadership development program, we focused on developing the skills of giving Coaching and feedback. We used a digital business leadership simulation to provide participants with the chance to practice and learn by doing. Toward the end of the session, one of our participants who was very pleased with the session asked about skills related to receiving feedback, especially this time of year. We spent some really good time talking about practical best practices so I wanted to share with the readers of this blog the interesting work we came up with.