Feedback

Feedback.

In this job, there is never enough feedback.

Summer associates want more of it.

First year associates want more of it.

Most of us want more of it.

Wanting more feedback is legit.

I don't have a good answer for creating a formal system to give it out more often and more consistently.

I've seen and heard about firms trying many things.

When faced with too little feedback, here's what you can do:

🙋‍♀️ Ask for it;

🙋‍♀️ Ask for it again--schedule the meeting, make it a conversation: "How would you have handled this?" "What would you have done differently?" "When you were more year, how did you do [insert task here]?"

🙋‍♀️ Run your own redlines/comparison between drafts;

🙋‍♀️ Believe that no news is good news--if you were doing a poor job, you'd know it, they'd be telling you;

🙋‍♀️ Believe that no news is good news--if you're continuing to get new work, you did not do a poor job on prior assignments.

🙋‍♀️ Feel the uncomfortable feeling of lacking feedback and think long term.

This is not school and that takes getting used to.

In the corporate world, you will not receive grades (outside a singular, annual review).

You will not have a regular cadence of scoring, of reacting to and adjusting to assessments.

You will get used to it. I promise.

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