Six Tips on Dealing with Feedback

You feel like you’ve been kicked in the guts!  It’s painful.  This wasn’t what you were expecting.  You thought you’d get a response like ‘it was fantastic' and now you’re hurting.  All you did was ask your colleague what they thought of your work.  You thought it was a great job that met the outcomes required.  They thought it lacked substance and it was not up to standard.  THWACK!  There it is.  You feel it like a blow to the stomach.