Multimedia Development

 I read an article this week called "How to give bad feedback without being a jerk" by Adam Grant. He opens by discussing the sandwich method of feedback, this method involves opening and closing with a positive comment and giving the bulk of bad feedback in the middle. Grant found that there were a lot of problems with this method, firstly you can come off ingenuine with your positive comments if they're followed by negatives, another problem was that people tend to only remember or fully take in the beginning and ending of a conversation so this meant that the feedback wasn't being received to its full extent. Grant followed this with four steps to successfully give constructive criticism. If you explain why you're giving the feedback and tell them you have high expectations that you believe they can reach, they now feel like you are supporting them rather than attacking their faults. Another step is to take yourself off a pedestal, if you express that you ae st...

I think feedback is very important, whether its in your studies or in work it can help you to recognize mistakes and improve in all aspects. I read two articles this week relating to feedback and how you can use it, the first was   'A fixed mindset could be holding you back — here's how to change it' by Anna Kelsey-Sugg and Ann Arnold. This article related to my readings last week on fixed and growth  mindsets, I found it interesting how they discussed that praising your child for everything they do can create a brittle and fragile person although that is what parents were told to do for years, it leads to a fixed mindset. They also discussed how people with fixed mindsets can struggle at work because of the new technological  changes we see today. Naturally, people with fixed mindsets wouldn't adapt well to change because they shy away from challenges so I can see how it could affect you at the workplace.  Another article I read was 'Why rejection hurts so much...