CareerMysteries

There is nothing more difficult in a business environment to listen and learn from facts and observations about yourself and your own performance. So often our defense mechanisms come into play preventing us from effectively absorbing the information and making appropriate changes to grow and develop our skills and abilities.

As a writer, I find it hard to take criticism on my work and editing from editors. Each time this happens, I need to force myself to step back and think about what the person is saying and accept responsibility for a shortcoming, edit, botched task or whatever the issue might be.

When I can allow myself to really listen and gain something from what has been said, that is hard for me to hear, I will improve my writing or correct a bad pattern and be a better employee in the end.

Growth is essentially the resolution of conflict with a positive and progressive result. In the employment sphere, some managers lack the tact and ability to give feedback in a constructive way and this often results in the employee rejecting his or her advice. Though the message was good, the relaying of the message was lacking.

The person who really wants to develop themselves must look beyond the delivery and evaluate the message. Could he be right? If you can do this effectively, you will get something worthwhile from the performance appraisal process. Try it and see for yourself.