"Workers in the Snow" (1913) by Edvard Munch
According to Grant, "In performance cultures, the emphasis on results often undermines psychological safety' (209). He says "psychological safety" is "the foundation of learning culture" and defines it as a "climate of respect, trust, and openness in which people can raise concerns and suggestions without fear of reprisal" (209).
One effective technique for achieving "sustainable gains in psycholigal safety" in the workplace is for managers to "tell their teams about a time when they benefitted from constructive criticism" and to "identify the areas that they were working to improve now" (213).
Your challenge for this comment is to identify a time when you benefitted from constructive criticsim and identify areas that you are working to improve on now or look forward to working on in the semester ahead.
A time I benefitted from constructive criticism was, which is probably the case for most college students, when I needed some help on an essay I was writing for my freshman comp class. It was worth a fairly large chunk of my grade, so I understandably wanted to do my best. This required me seeking out some second opinions, which is something I have never been very comfortable with, but I sent it to my peer group for review, as well as to the writing center. And it worked! They all gave me good feedback and I got a good grade. Now, I am working on being more open to asking for people's feedback.
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I have taken piano lessons ever since I was five years old and have always loved it. It has always been one of my top priorities. During my junior and senior years of high school, I was involved in several other extracurricular activities, and I began to practice a lot less. During one of my lessons, my teacher pointed out that I had not been advancing at the same pace I used to and, in fact, was almost at a standstill. I had not realized how distracted I was with everything I was involved in. Since then, I have learned to manage my time better and spot when I am distracted from things that are important to me. I definitely have more room for improvement, and I am continuing to work on this today.
ReplyDelete213. As someone who has had to do a lot of different vocal and acting auditions in the past, criticism and I have a love hate relationship. It is important in an audition to walk in with the understanding that you are not the best in the room and you always have room to improve and change things. But, it is also difficult sometimes to take that criticism, especially when you really have your heart and mind set on the outcome. So, in an ironic twist, the best constructive criticism I have ever got was about how to take constructive criticism. Quote from my Vocal Teacher, "Use it, don't hate it! Learn from what your critics tell you! Just don't take it to heart. Take it to Brain." From then on, it has stuck with me! Don't take it to heart, take it to Brain. Use all the little details on form, posture, technique, acting, ect, to make yourself even better than before. Then from there, get even more detailed critique and better yourself more! I guess, in order to fully answer the prompt, I still plan to take criticism and use it as best as I can, but I also know that criticism is hard and I want to better myself in appreciating criticism. -Austyn
ReplyDeleteA time when I benefitted from constructive criticism is when I had a friend read a story I'd been writing. He told me it was garbage. He was correct and I decided to scrap the idea. Then I started thinking about a book idea I had when I was eight, and I decided to start writing to help get better at the things that I thought the first story lacked. Good characters, good action, clear themes. So far I have written 268 pages in that story and very clearly improved as a writer because of it.
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