Learning Through Feedback: The Key to Personal and Professional Growth

Written By Julie Entwistle MBA, BSc (OT), BSc.
“A great leader, coach, or therapist will proactively engage in hard feedback conversations even though they can be uncomfortable and awkward.”

Feedback is essential for growth, both personally and professionally. Here's why:

  1. Embrace Hard Feedback: To improve, we need to hear the hard truths. Would you want to know if your actions were causing problems? Embrace feedback, even when it's challenging.

  2. Receive Feedback Openly: A great leader welcomes feedback, even if it's uncomfortable. Being open to feedback fosters reflection and appreciation, driving personal development.

  3. Develop Feedback Skills: Providing effective feedback is a skill that can be learned. It's essential for facilitating growth and improving performance.

  4. Navigational Conversations Course: Explore "Navigational Conversations," a course designed to transform how you communicate with others. Learn strategies for empowering individuals to solve problems independently and manage themselves effectively.

  5. Effective Feedback Strategies: The course covers providing feedback effectively and handling various responses, ensuring constructive outcomes.

Ready to learn more? Dive into the transformative power of feedback with the Navigational Conversations course. Contact me to learn more about course offerings.

Julie Entwistle MBA, BSc (OT), BSc.

Julie Entwistle is a Certified FocalPoint Business Coach and works with business owners and professional service providers.

Julie helps her clients by building their business confidence so they can run, grow, and develop legacy practices that are focused and optimally successful. Julie knows that when professional service businesses do better, their clients also benefit. She knows this because she was one! Prior to joining FocalPoint, Julie was an independent owner of her own healthcare business before successfully merging, growing, and selling the practice. As an owner Julie had her own business coach, and this was a key element in her success.

Academically, Julie has degrees in Health Studies and Gerontology and Health Science (Occupational Therapy) from the University of Waterloo and McMaster, respectively, and an MBA from Wilfrid Laurier. She attended Queens University as a part-time Doctorate student prior to discontinuing her studies in 2023. Julie is also a Chartered Director and has Board and governance experience.

Julie grew up in a franchise family, so business is in her DNA. She has raised four daughters who are off writing their own stories as young adults. Julie is active and fit with a black belt in Karate, a competitive golf game, and enjoys many other sports. She believes in authenticity, showing kindness to all living things, and is happiest when helping others to build their own wealth and wellness.

Find Julie on LinkedIn at: linkedin.com/in/julieentwistle

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