Is Your Culture Not Good About Giving Feedback?

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Ela Claus: Are there folks, you know, part of as Ela Claus, your posse that you could try to level set a little bit and understand what's going on in your company? Yeah. I've been a part of a few African American high potential groups like where we have done talent development type of initiatives. So I feel like that's a good space for me to get that feedback. One of my colleagues, she's also an engineer. She's been in the organization a little bit longer than me, but I almost feel like she hasn't got even the same amount of feedback that I've gotten. And when we compare notes about our experiences with our bosses and

What do you do when no one will give you actionable and useful feedback? That’s the situation our guest, an aerospace engineer, has been in for years. And while she’s managed to move up within her company, she feels like she’s missing out on information that would clarify her standing there and secure her future success.

Ella Bell, an expert on interpersonal communication and organizational behavior, shares creative ways to draw out people’s perceptions of your performance and potential. She also offers advice on how to make sense of the feedback you do receive. It can be especially tricky if you don’t agree with what someone says or if their comments don’t align with your priorities. We talk through both scenarios and give suggestions for how to respond.

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Ella Bell is a professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

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