{"id":7405,"date":"2017-12-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/business\/heres-how-to-take-the-sting-out-of-receiving-criticism\/"},"modified":"2017-12-04T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-12-04T06:00:00","slug":"heres-how-to-take-the-sting-out-of-receiving-criticism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/hr\/heres-how-to-take-the-sting-out-of-receiving-criticism\/","title":{"rendered":"Here&#8217;s How To Take The Sting Out Of Receiving Criticism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before getting defensive, try treating feedback as a gift, rather than criticism.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/lisaquast\/2017\/01\/16\/heres-how-to-take-the-sting-out-of-receiving-criticism\/?nowelcome=&#038;utm_campaign=sprinklrForbesMainLI&#038;utm_content=1192210604&#038;utm_medium=social&#038;utm_source=LINKEDIN_COMPANY&#038;utm_term=Recirc+Test,1e9ac7f47484\">Here&#8217;s How To Take The Sting Out Of Receiving Criticism<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Receiving criticism can sometimes be a messy situation, especially when it&#8217;s unexpected, harsh or given when others are present. You might feel shocked, angry or even embarrassed by the comments. But before getting defensive, try switching your mind-set and treating the feedback as a gift, rather than criticism. Here&#8217;s how.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before getting defensive, try treating feedback as a gift, rather than criticism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thumbor.forbes.com\/thumbor\/600x300\/smart\/https%3A%2F%2Fspecials-images.forbesimg.com%2Fimageserve%2F552470557%2F960x0.jpg%3Ffit%3Dscale","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[43,45,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-7405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hr","8":"tag-engagement","9":"tag-leadership","10":"tag-wellness"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}