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Please respond to the video on "Differences in Interpretation" and answer the following questions:

Have you ever experienced differences in interpretation?
What was your reaction to the misunderstanding?
What are some reactions you've received when giving feedback?
Have you ever received feedback that you knew was "right" but that you weren't ready to take?
What makes effective feedback?

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Differences in Interpretation

The video by Crucial Learning (Crucial Learning 2009) entitled "Awkward Performance Review" features a guy named Matt talking about his upcoming performance review with a male colleague. It also features his superior at work, a female manager about to give him his performance review (Bamboo HR 2022), talking with another female colleague about Matt and how he has fared in the formal assessment she has undertaken of his work. In the video we see how Matt's self-evaluation is very different from that of his assessor; in his self-evaluation, he thinks he did well, interpreting the previous evaluation (which were rather negative), in a positive manner, asserting that he has made changes. Matt is sure he will be promoted, especially since he needs the extra money as his wife is pregnant and she also lost her job. In the Assessor's talk with her colleague, she reveals the opposite - in her evaluation, Matt is underperforming, his appearance is and ...

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