Feedback, Most Important Elements Of Successful Growth

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Feedback, Most Important Elements Of Successful Growth

Personal feedback is one of the most important elements of successful communication. Whether in the workplace or in a personal environment, good feedback provides new perspectives and helps us grow personally. Feedback strengthens our bonds with others and helps us develop our strengths.

Good feedback changes the world:

1. Never be afraid to fail. Failure is only a stepping stone to improvement. Never be overconfident because that will block your improvement. ~ Tony Jaa
2. The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others. ~ John Locke
3. Improvement begins with I. ~ Arnold H. Glasow
4. We all need people who will give us feedback. That’s how we improve. ~ Bill Gates
5. Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots. ~  Frank A. Clark
6. Feedback is the breakfast of champions. ~ Ken Blanchard
7. Feedback is a gift. Ideas are the currency of our next success. Let people see you value both feedback and ideas. ~ Les Wallace
8. Mistakes should be examined, learned from, and discarded; not dwelled upon and stored. ~ Tim Fargo
9. What is the shortest word in the English language that contains the letters: abcdef? Answer: feedback. Don’t forget that feedback is one of the essential elements of good communication. ~ Anonymous
10. There is no failure. Only feedback. ~ Robert Allen
11. True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes. ~ Daniel Kahneman
12. The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. ~ George Bernard Shaw
13. Examine what is said and not who speaks. ~ African proverb
14. Employees who report receiving recognition and praise within the last seven days show increased productivity, get higher scores from customers, and have better safety records. They’re just more engaged at work. ~ Tom Rath
15. There are two things’ people want more than sex and money… recognition and praise. ~ Mary Ash
16. Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. ~ Winston Churchill
17. To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing. ~ Elbert Hubbard
18. Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble. ~ Yehuda Berg
19. To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others. ~ Tony Robbins
20. Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people. ~ Jim Rohn
21. If you have an important point to make, don’t try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. ~ Winston Churchill
22. The two words ‘information’ and ‘communication’ are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through. ~ Sydney J. Harris
23. Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at it, you can rapidly improve the quality of every part of your life. ~ Brian Tracy
24. Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. ~ Joyce Brothers
25. If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. ~ John Quincy Adams
26. All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual. ~ Albert Einstein
27. Ever since I was a child, I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one’s potential. ~ Bruce Lee
28. The growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. ~ Harvey S. Firestone
29. Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
30. Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection. ~ Kim Collins
31. The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. ~ George Will
32. To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ~ Marilyn Savant
33. It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. ~ Immanuel Kant
34. Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ~ Carl Jung
35. In a growth mindset, challenges are exciting rather than threatening. So rather than thinking, oh, I’m going to reveal my weaknesses, you say, wow, here’s a chance to grow. ~ Carol Dweck

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