Is there any value in negative feedback? What is the optimum balance between positive and negative comments

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Is there any value in negative feedback? What is the optimum balance between positive and negative comments?

The author argues that corrective feedback prevents firms from reaping employees the best performance.

People get defensive, anxious and nervous when it comes to criticism; some people might get demotivated.

Praise build confidence resilience and the urge to perform better

Negave feedback can be useful in further developing ideas because it allows us to

understand the reasons of failure.

Negave feedback from diferent domains allows you to communicate your idea more

clearly — to incorporate, avoid, or merge it with other areas of thought.

It is important to rst understand the nature of the cricism, as well as its source. A

though.ul review from a credible source is not the same as a mean-spirited comment

online from an anonymous Internet trol

According to the author negative feedback has value. Negative feedback is essential especially in developing ideas because they allow people to have a clear knowledge and understanding the reason behind failure. Negative feedback allows an individual to communicate his/her ideas more clearly and also avoid, merge or incorporate the ideas with other areas of thoughts.

RBS describes a feedback that seeking exercise that assist people to find out and understand their unique strength and talents. After gathering information or feedback from different people in our life, the RBS then guides us in creating an image of our best self as well as the action plan for leveraging our strengths.

Roberts, L. M., Spreitzer, G., Dutton, J., Quinn, R., Heaphy, E., & Barker, B. (2005). How to play to your strengths. Harvard Business Review, 83(1), 74-80.