Master the Art of Receiving Quality Feedback (from an ex-Meta Staff Researcher)

In this time of uncertainty in the workplace and job market, what’s one skill you can develop that would yield disproportionate rewards?

It’s hard to pinpoint the one skill, but I believe the ability to ask for, receive, and iterate on feedback is incredibly important. Adaptability is what helps us not just survive, but thrive—and adaptability begins with how well we take in and work with feedback.

When you learn to process feedback effectively, you develop a kind of likability and professional superpower that organizations and leaders find hard to ignore.

We hear feedback all the time, so what exactly are we trying to get better at? Most of the feedback we receive is vague and hard to act on. Think about examples like “improve your communication” or “increase your coding speed”—where do you even start? The key is in asking for feedback proactively, clarifying and chunking it down into something actionable, working on it, and then circling back to check if you’ve understood and implemented it well.

In this talk, we’ll learn how to do exactly that—a process I call “exhausting the feedback process,” a phrase I often use in my coaching practice. We’ll also explore how to handle feedback that’s just plain off the mark (spoiler: it’s rarely useful to say that outright to the person giving it).

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