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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
Today's tip is to make sure that critiques are aimed at being helpful and that you are direct when giving them.
so i recently learned about a leader who likes to tell her team the devil doesn't need another advocate in other words don't feel the need to play devil's advocate by expressing an opposing point of view just to do so so if you find yourself starting to say if i had to offer one criticism, stop.
You don't have to offer any criticisms.
Now, I do believe there is a place for robust discussion.
Nothing is ever perfect.
But I do think this leader is on to something that playing devil's advocate is not always helpful.
When people refer to playing devil's advocate, they are not expressing the alternative view in their own voice.
They are voicing the perspective of this hypothetical devil's advocate.
Likewise, when people say, if I had to offer one criticism, they are not standing behind their feedback.
They are presenting it as though offering a criticism were compulsory, as though someone said they had to offer one critique.
But that is almost never the case.
If something is fine, it is fine.
If you see something that you believe needs to be changed.
Then state what that is and what you would like to see be different.
For instance, you could simply say, I think we should consider how newcomers might experience this new procedure.
Or, overall, I thought the event was great, but there was a bottleneck when people were checking in.
Maybe we could explore a different system for next year.
Neither of these comments feels overly negative or critical.
They are forward -looking and productive and direct.
they are intended to help the team get better.
Sometimes, though, feedback or offering a different perspective isn't actually going to help the team get better.
This might be because the feedback isn't relevant to anything that's happening in the future or because there is nothing that can be done about whatever the irritation is.
When that is the case, you can just hold your tongue.
Sometimes kids are taught when offering feedback to evaluate if something is honest or kind or necessary.
I might also add productive to the list.
And these are valuable questions for adults to ask as well before offering criticism.
If it will be helpful, great.
But if you are arguing just to argue or criticizing because that feels more sophisticated than simply letting something that is acceptable be acceptable, just remember, the devil doesn't need another advocate.
You don't have to offer any criticism at all.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
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