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Feedback makes the difference

COMMUNICATE your opinions.

Feedback is someone giving their opinion(s) on what you are doing or have done. Feedback is used as a basis for improvement. Some go further to tell you what could be improved. Feedback is my sixth love language. I get feedback from friends, colleagues, mentors, bots, software applications and others. I request feedback of people I work with because I strongly believe it aids my growth.

I also give feedback; pointing out the fact that the opinion is personal because different feedbacks(views) can be given on the same issue/scenario. This is why I refer to giving/receiving feedback as an exchange of personal opinions. I give constructive feedback. I prefer to get constructive feedback as it is specific, helps me understand what is to be improved on and what I already do well. Feedback goes a long way. During the  Facebook Mentoring program, my mentors gave feedback on my performance at the end of every session and I have improved on areas like my communication skills, coding skills, and speaking skills. My Wikimedia mentors have taught me to know when help is needed. I don't spend more than an hour debugging the same issue; I make contact for help and move on to other tasks or continue with debugging while I await feedback. I write code in a more structured and easy-to-understand manner because I learned a better pattern and Jenkins taught me to structure my code by force😁.

I practice feedback in different ways. For example, I tell people my observations on what they did/do, what I learned and what I think they could have done better. In my next post, I would be touching constructive feedback(feedback just the way I love it 🤭).

Kindly drop your feedback in the comment box below 😊.
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