Chloe Spillane argues that taking constructive feedback is essential for career growth. She separates genuine criticism from feeling personally attacked, and stresses that admitting knowledge gaps and asking managers for help when stepping into new roles accelerates learning instead of stalling your progress.
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Just because you're asking for help doesn't mean you can't do your job. If you want to move up in your career but you can't take negative feedback, you're not going to get very far. Of course, there is a difference between constructive feedback and feeling personally attacked, but if you don't have the capacity to receive feedback, you can't expect yourself to grow. I think we need to ask ourselves how many of us can admit that we don't know something. How many of us feel confident going to our manager or going to a colleague and saying, hey, I don't know what the fuck I'm doing, can you please help me? I think a lot of the time, especially when we move into leadership, a new role that's a step up, or we change careers, we expect ourselves to be on top of everything straight away from day one. But that's just not going to happen. There's going to be areas that you are just a complete beginner at, and that's okay. But if you don't allow yourself to receive help, you're going to stay here and you're not going to get to this level, which is the whole reason why you stepped into this role. So if you are one of these people, you're feeling uncomfortable because you're not across everything, I'd encourage you to ask for help today because that's going to help you move further forward tomorrow.