Receiving feedback well

What: Women of Wisdom Virtual Event: “Receiving Feedback Well” with Elena Krasnoperova

Where: Zoom

When: Tuesday, January 28 2025, 12:00-1:00 pm PT

Price: FREE

Note: This event is hosted by Athena Alliance. If you are not currently a member of Athena Alliance, you will receive a code that will allow you to join the Zoom session, for free.

By the time we get to senior leadership positions in corporate America, most of us get extensive training on how to give feedback to our employees. We have been taught methods like SBI: Situation, Behavior, Impact. We have been trained how to write feedback that is fair and helpful and grounded in facts. We have role-played every imaginable scenario for how a feedback conversation might go and how an employee might respond to tough feedback. This training has undoubtedly made us better managers and leaders.

Yet we are rarely taught how to receive feedback well. In fact, it is really hard to receive feedback when it feels unfair or inaccurate. We wonder if the manager delivering the feedback ever went through the feedback-giving training that we did! When the feedback we receive feels unfair, we argue with it and reject it as untrue. We ruminate about it at night. We feel bad about ourselves and mad at the person who delivered it.

In this salon, former senior Tech executive Elena Krasnoperova discusses how to receive feedback well, even if – and especially if – it is inaccurate and unfair.

You will learn:

About three distinct types of feedback that you receive at work (and at home).
About your temperament and how you’re biologically wired to respond to positive and negative feedback.
How to pause the internal monologue about the accuracy and fairness of feedback so that you can really hear the feedback.
How to “interview” the feedback-giver so that you can gather all the facts about their perspective.
How to come back to the feedback when you are ready (even if it is days later!) to sort it into the buckets of useful and not useful, and only then decide whether and how you will act on the useful bits in the feedback.
How to turn even the most unfair feedback into a powerful learning opportunity.

Learning how to receive feedback well will not only supercharge your career, but can also help you be a better spouse, daughter, mother, and friend. It can become your superpower.

Elena Krasnoperova, Founder of WoW Bay Area, former VP of Ads Analytics at Meta

Elena Krasnoperova recently wrapped up a successful 25+ year-long career in Tech, where in her last job as a VP of Ads Analytics at Meta she led a team of 1,500+ data scientists and data engineers. Now, as the Founder of WoW Bay Area, Elena helps successful professional women (aka Women of Wisdom) discover their “ikigai” and live a life filled with purpose and joy. Elena also advises early- and mid-stage Tech startups on getting to product-market fit, finding traction, and growing revenue. Elena holds a Ph.D. in Psychology from Stanford. In her spare time, Elena teaches Zumba at the Y, sharing the love of music and Latin dance. She also loves to travel, read, and connect with interesting people.