Work hacks | Why asking for advice is better than asking for feedback

Asking for our peers to provide feedback on a project we’ve been working on comes naturally to most people.

It’s part of our human nature to pass on a presentation to a colleague to gain their thoughts before standing up in front of the board or C-suite to showcase ideas to help instil some calm and confidence, however, can feedback can actually hinder our performance? It turns out it can.

According to the Harvard Business Review, the feedback we receive can often be too vague and fails to highlight how we can improve. As such we should instead be asking for advice from our peers and managers.

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Harvard Business Review (HBR) carried out four experiments, which found that people received more effective input when they asked for advice, rather than feedback.