Radical Candor

Let’s talk about feedback for a minute. How do you prefer to receive feedback, and what works best for you?

Direct, real time with examples, no emotion, leave emotions at the door.

Radical Candor, hey, imagine that.

I know, let me tell you. Co-founding a company with the author of Radical Candor, right? It’s just like, “Kim, I have Radical Candor,” her eyes light up, right? But with excitement, unlike other folks will be like, “Ooh, no, it’s coming,” but I also think that when it’s constant feedback. The other thing that I have found is, it doesn’t happen often that I get feedback that I haven’t already given myself. So, for example, Nia, our executive business partner, is on here, and she’s taking notes, and she’s going to have feedback, and she’ll get off and she’ll say, “These are things you could have done better, these are things that you should continue to do well.”
A lot of times of like, I’m like, “Yep, I could have done that better, you’re right, I needed to have shortened that answer.” But then there are times where I’ll be like, “Wow! That’s really good feedback.” We just had an event in New York, and Nia gave me feedback, that I had not thought of, and that I didn’t think of, and I was so excited to receive that. I think of feedback as an opportunity to learn and grow and get better, I’m very competitive, I want to be the best at what I do. Why would I not want feedback?
We all have ego, but I get to pick and choose on where my ego shows up, and I do my best for my ego not to show up in moments in the workplace with feedback. But if you were to talk to my significant other, they would say no, you just allow your ego to show up in our relationship every day. Look, we all have it, give and take, right? Give and take.