Communication, Integration, & Reciprocation: How to Manage Constructive Criticism as an Individual and as a Company, Part III

The final piece to the review puzzle is reciprocation. You have had the conversations around your review, you’ve created an actionable plan and are executing on it; the final step is to reciprocate or share your progress.

As you implement changes and test new courses of action, it is extremely important that you periodically check in with you management teams to help reevaluate how you are doing. You will be learning new ways to perform and not all will be perfect; you may find that you tried a new way of doing something and came up with a poor result. This is all part of the development process as change does not always result in an improvement.

In order to grow it is necessary to learn how to give, how to get and what to do with reviews and constructive criticism. We should view this entire process as a way to learn more about ourselves and how we can be better at our jobs. The process also helps us set firmer goals and have a stronger desire to attain them.

So the keys to this are, communication with your peers and management teams, integrating your new found ideas and goals into your everyday work life and reevaluating after implementation.