Who’s Feedback Should Count (or NOT) in 360-Degree Feedback by Sandra Mashihi - Envisia

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Trying to process advice about your performance? So whose feedback matters most, especially when it's conflicting? Sandra Mashini will help you reconcile this question. Follow the link below.

by Sandra Mashihi

Excerpts:

Self-ratings are typically weakly to moderately correlated with other rater perspectives with greater convergence between peer and supervisor ratings (Nowack, 1992). It seems intuitive to expect that some differences in perspectives will occur across rater groups. According to Ken Nowack, Ph.D. in his 2002 and 2009 publications, the following patterns of perceptions exist between raters:

Direct reports tend to emphasize and filter interpersonal and relationship behaviors
Superiors tend to focus more on performance-oriented behaviors
Peers tend to be most accurate at predicting future leadership potential

These rater group differences cause confusion in the interpretation of 360-degree feedback
Discussing the differences between rater group perceptions led to the revelation of an underlying issue

So, as a lesson, all variations of feedback results can provide meaningful insights and lessons. In fact, a core learning message may be revealed regardless of whether there are differences or similarities between perceptions of different raters.

“Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.”- Albert Einstein

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The Happiness Connection

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Discover how powerful you will become by making the conscious choice, despite circumstance, to be happy. It's a decision and commitment that only you can make. Read Lionel Ketchien's Happiness Column. I look forward to his weekly newsletter, "The Happiness Zone." It always inspires me. Does it do the same for you?

Excepts:

There is another way to live your life. Decide to be happy no matter what. Wake up in the morning and decide to be happy. You go through the day and experience people and events that would make most people unhappy, but not you! You're too smart for that. You know that only you are in charge of your happiness. You would not want anyone else to be in charge of your happiness.


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Nine Ways Successful People Defeat Stress

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Excerpts – Nine Ways:

1. Have self-compassion

2. Think about the “Big Picture”

3. Rely on routines

4. Take five (or ten) minutes to do something you find interesting

5. Add where and when to your To Do List

6. Use if-thens for positive self-talk

7. See your work in terms of progress, not perfection

8. Think about the progress that you’ve already made

9. Know whether optimism or defensive pessimism works for you

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Heidi Grant Halvorson is a rising star in the field of motivational science. She is a an expert blogger for Fast Company, WSJ.com, Forbes, The Huffington Post, and Psychology Today, as well as a regular contributor to the BBC World Service's Business Daily, the Harvard Business Review, and SmartBrief's SmartBlog on Leadership. Her writing has also been featured on CNN Living and Mamapedia.



Heidi is also Associate Director of the Motivation Science Center at the Columbia University Business School.