Overview
Cultural awareness helps you understand and connect with others better. Part of developing your cultural awareness depends on how you give and receive feedback. In this assignment, you will reflect on how you give and receive feedback and how diversity awareness impacts communication and collaboration. (As you may recall, diversity awareness involves recognizing, respecting, and embracing others’ differences.) Reflecting on how you give and receive feedback will help you approach feedback as an opportunity to strengthen your own communication skills and your relationships with others.
Directions
In this journal submission, you will describe how you give and receive feedback. You will reflect on past feedback and how it has shaped your approach to receiving feedback now. You will also discuss the impact that diversity awareness has on communication, collaboration, and feedback situations. Finally, you will describe strategies you can use when interacting with people with diverse backgrounds.
Specifically, you must address the following:
- Describe your perceptions regarding receiving feedback.
- How does receiving feedback make you feel?
- How can you improve your reaction to feedback?
- Describe how you can use past feedback to inform how you give and receive feedback now.
- What have you learned from past experiences in which you received feedback?
- How can you apply what you learned to future feedback situations?
- Describe the impact that diversity awareness has on giving and receiving feedback when communicating and collaborating with others.
- Describe how you can use strategies for interacting with diverse groups of people as you give and receive feedback.
What to Submit
Submit your journal as a 1-page Microsoft Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. No sources are required. If sources are used, be sure to include an attribution (or citation) to the source.
