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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here.  I will take the feedback into account and try to keep it in check from now on, but it is doubly annoying coming from someone who makes such glaring speaking errors all the time.

Also it is coming at a time when we are (as acknowledged by my VP in a staff meeting today) very swamped with work all the time (nights and weekends, working on vacation earlier this week, etc.) so it is just not what I need right now to motivate![/quote]

I'm stilled scarred from my constructive "feedback" at my last job.  In my exit interview I took the position that perhaps management was not trained in the art of how to give constructive feedback in a way that would motivate rather than demotivate an employee.  I really think that it is a skill to be able to deliver feedback in such a way that the person feels like they are doing a good job and is motivated to do even better.

Anyway, I will say that even the most incompetent boss can still have a nugget of truth in your review whether you want to own it or not. It's not a good trait to immediately point to the fact that so and so also does it (which you can't control) instead of working on the fact that you do it.  As hard as it may be, don't let the feedback make you so self-conscious or so anxious that you are not a motivated, confident, happy worker.  It's far worse to lose that motivation, that confidence, that pleasantness than to say "honestly" in your presentations.    It's just polish to bring out what you already have, not the end of the world.  As crazy as people were at my last place, at least to myself, I own my mistakes in how I dealt with things.  This time around I like to think I picked a better organization and I've gotten better at standing up for myself.[/quote]

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