Feedback is an important part of self-development. It is easily overlooked and oversimplified into multiple polite comments with little significance. But it needs to be collected and examined because it can reveal how your colleagues feel about working with you, how you communicate and collaborate with them. It reveals how they perceive your ability to handle stress and adversity. It shows how you rate on your ability to connect and build relationships with colleagues and clients. It shows the positive but more importantly it shows the negative social attitudes and behaviours you may have to eject. This information could otherwise take years to figure out. Feedback can be gathered by handing out forms, sending emails or organising online surveys. Whichever way it is gathered the information is best anonymised so people can feel that they can give out honest comments and criticisms without having to be diplomatic. As well as that it needs to have a speedy assurance or reply on being acted on as otherwise people are far less likely to give feedback. A personalised email may be the best way to get feedback because a person is far more likely to respond if they think the organisation actually cares what they think. …show more content…
This is the hardest part as it is dependent on knowing the person, the clients and work colleagues. By asking multiple people the same question, you may start to see a pattern in the responses. Patterns can be reviewed and behaviours determined for how they affect workplace performance. Conversely, if there is no pattern it may indicate a change may be needed as your behaviours may be inconsistent or peoples reactions to your behaviours are inconsistent. Once problems have been identified they have to be acted on and new behaviours and attitudes adopted. New strategies and development plans need to be implemented. Changes have to be acted on and then more feedback is needed to determine if the changes are