STATUS COLLECTION
Status collection is an action that you take to determine the progress made in achieving your plans, but this action is filled with pitfalls that can hinder the validity of your feedback.
First, you face a lack of available information. Unless you have some mechanism in place to receive regular feedback, you will have to seek it. Holding meetings, interviewing people, and observing work are three ways to obtain feedback.
Second, you occasionally deal with defensive people. They will resist any effort to provide the feedback that you need. When facing these people, seek other sources of information, such as talking with other colleagues.
Third, you deal with untruthful people, who will tell you anything to get you off their ...
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