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Communication: Feedback

FEEDBACK is an essential part of a healthy relationship that benefits both parties. Giving information to the other person about what you are feeling, thinking and would like to see happen is essential for healthy communication. Receiving information about how you are affecting the other person in the relationship is essential to know how to be a better spouse, friend, daughter, son, sister, etc. Use the guideline below to help increase the chance of an effective interchange.

An honest answer is the sign of a good friendship. Proverbs 24:26 NLV

To be most effective, feedback must be:

SOLICITED. The person may be asked for right then or it may understood depending on the level of intimacy in the relationship.

TIMELY. Often things go awry because we choose bad times to give feedback. Look for a time whem the person is not busy and seems available. You can ask them is they are able to talk.

TENTATIVE. Give feedback as though it is a gift that they may choose to accept or not. Give it as though it may or may not be accurate and needed. It is very hard for everyone to hear feedback as definitive statements about them.

CHECK IT OUT. Ask the other person what they think and feel about what was said. Check to see if you are both in a productive feedback cycle and not heading for an argument.

Remember that it is imperative that you make I" statements and avoid "You" statements.

In the end, people appreciate honest criticism far more than flattery. Proverbs 28:23 NLV
25 Therefore, putting away lying, Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another. 26 Be angry, and do not sin: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, 27 nor give place to the devil. Ephesians 4:25-27

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Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; Proverbs 3:5