Ongoing Feedback

It should be someone with whom you have worked long enough to have had opportunities to observe you in a variety of settings. This usually means at least six months.
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should be someone with whom you must interact in order for you both to be successful. This is a relationship where each of you has a vested interest in making the other person work more effectively.

should be someone who has a different work style and whose feedback will provide opinions and points of view that are new. To ask for this kind of feedback, you will have to move outside your comfort zone.

It should be a person whose opinion you respect and who will encourage you to improve your effectiveness, someone with credibility and integrity. When you think of him or her, you should be able to say to yourself, “This is someone I trust to be honest with me, who does not have a hidden agenda, and who treats me with respect.”