How to Ask for Feedback
Asking for feedback is often fruitless. Why is that? In this article, we look at why most requests for feedback fail and how to effectively ask for feedback to improve.
How to Ask for Feedback Last updated: December 2020 • 6 min read Microskills Share: One of the readers of my Developer Microskills newsletter sent me this request: One thing you wrote was “Ask for help and get feedback sooner than you think you need it.” I would love to read your thoughts about HOW to do this. This is a great question and “asking for feedback” is a perfect example of a microskill. Why Asking for Feedback Fails Most of the time, our experience with feedback goes one of two ways: We wait around for someone to voluntarily give us feedback. This almost never happens and when it do
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