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How Was I Handling Negative Feedback? Essay

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How was I handling negative feedback? Accurate external feedback is essential to facilitate improvement in performance (Sargeant at al 2010). To achieve the best results not only feedback needs to be provided in a right way but also a person accepting the feedback needs to be receptive to it. Although I always maintained professional while receiving feedback and often actively sought feedback myself, I found challenging at a times to handle negative feedback. 1: Lesmes-Anel, J., Robinson, G., and Moody, S. (2001). Learning preferences and learning styles: a study of Wessex general practice registrars. British Journal of General Practice, 51, 559-564. I remember experiencing a range of negative emotions including annoyance, anger, frustration, fear, hopelessness when receiving critical feedback from my supervisors. On reflection I believe these emotions negatively affected my receptivity to the feedback. In addition, it also had impact on my satisfaction with the placement on the days I received negative feedback. I remember, being particularly annoyed in the situations then different dietitians gave different feedback on the same things, for instance how long and detailed should be dietetic entries in the medical notes. In these cases, my immediate reaction involved silently questioning the accuracy of the feedback. Once I have just replied to the supervisor that another dietitian had advised me to write entries in such way. Now I see that I was self-defensive and looked

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