Lyndsay Swinton

There’s something not quite right at work. Your colleagues are generally a good bunch and work gets done, but yet you’re in early, leave late and a full lunch break is a distant memory.

No matter how much you twist and turn to avoid it, giving negative feedback may be the kindest way to change behaviour.

Giving positive feedback is one of the more enjoyable tasks in the workplace.

Even people with rhino hide for skin get nervous opening their 360 degree feedback report. Everyone you work with has rated you on your behaviour, skills and experience. Everyone. There’s no place to run to and no place to hide.

Here are 7 tips for receiving feedback gracefully, allowing you to learn from it and quickly move on.

You can improve your time management skills by doing nothing. Sounds impossible? Okay you’re right; you have to do something but not very much.

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