Serious Soft Skills

Accepting criticism can take the wind out of our sails and hurt our ability to advance in our careers, relationships and in life. We will discuss this complicated soft skill and give hints for delivering and responding to it better in this week’s episode of the Serious Soft Skills Podcast.

Cohosts Dr. Tobin Porterfield and Bob Graham talk about a number of important issues, including:

• Why the soft skill of accepting criticism can be difficult to hear
• How accepting criticism can benefit us and our development
• What happens when we don’t accept criticism
• Helping you versus hurting you with criticism
• When to discount people’s criticism
• Filtering out the good criticism and retaining ownership
• Finding people to trust and value who give you constrictive feedback
• How to give constructive criticism
• When to table someone’s criticism 
• “The Sandwich Method” of criticism
• When a cooling off period pays off for everyone  
• Preventing criticism from paralyzing us 
• Why organizations need to integrate feedback and criticism into their operations to become better
• Making a case for writing down suggestions, rather than speaking them 

Next week

We will address another soft skill and its implications. New episodes come out every Wednesday

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