Reflecting on Feedback and Diversity
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. While you will not be graded on the quality of your citations in this assignment, you may receive guidance from your instructor on how to properly cite sources.
Alternatively, Brightspace allows the use of video notes. You may optionally use the Video Note tool to complete this assignment but if you use any sources, you must refer to your sources verbally throughout your video and submit a separate references page. If you use Video Note, your video should be 2-5 minutes long. If you need assistance using Video Note, please refer to the resources in the Start Here module.
Module Six Journal Rubric Reflecting on Feedback and Diversity
| Criteria | Meets Expectations (100%) | Partially Meets Expectations (75%) | Does Not Meet Expectations (0%) | Value |
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| Perceptions | Describes perceptions regarding receiving feedback | Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing a more thorough description of perceptions regarding receiving feedback with specific examples | Does not attempt criterion | 22.5 |
| Past Feedback | Describes how to use past feedback to inform how to give and receive feedback now | Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing a more thorough description of how to use past feedback to inform how to give and receive feedback now with specific examples | Does not attempt criterion | 22.5 |
| Diversity Awareness | Describes the impact that diversity awareness has on giving and receiving feedback when communicating and collaborating with others | Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing a more thorough description of the impact that diversity awareness has on communicating and collaborating with others and giving and receiving feedback with specific examples | Does not attempt criterion | 22.5 |
| Strategies | Describes how to use strategies for interacting with diverse groups of people when giving and receiving feedback | Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but with errors or omissions; areas for improvement may include providing a more thorough description of how to use strategies for interacting with diverse groups of people when giving and receiving feedback with specific examples | Does not attempt criterion | 22.5 |
| Clear Communication | Consistently and effectively communicates in an organized way to a specific audience | Shows progress toward meeting expectations, but communication is inconsistent or ineffective in a way that negatively impacts understanding | Shows no evidence of consistent, effective, or organized communication | 10 |
| Total: | 100% |
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Describe your perceptions regarding receiving feedback,
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Describe how you can use past feedback to inform how you give and receive feedback now,
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Describe the impact that diversity awareness has on giving and receiving feedback when communicating and collaborating with others,
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Describe how you can use strategies for interacting with diverse groups of people when giving and receiving feedback.