Conflicts

Giving Feedback and Getting Feedback

The article provides an overview of fundamental ideas for giving and receiving feedback in the form of a mind map. If you find yourself in a feedback situation, it helps to briefly visualize this overview. This increases the value of the feedback conversation and takes no time at all.

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No power to the negaholics!

A gloomy November mood. The wind sweeps wet leaves through Hamburg’s streets, the cold creeps up my spine and before I can even take my coat off at the checkroom, I hear two voices from the conference room: “Have you heard about Jasper’s new idea?” “Oh that, it’s no good anyway.” “I don’t think it’ll ever work. Well, I’m not going along with it anyway.” Phew, I think, another gathering of self-confessed negaholics Where do some people get the unshakeable certainty that everything always goes wrong? Mustn’t that be terribly exhausting? Well, maybe not. After all, if nothing works anyway, there’s no need to make an effort. So perhaps a little bit of pessimism is quite practical at times.

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