Good supervisors will give you feedback on a regularly scheduled basis, balancing good and bad comments. Feedback is supposed to be constructive. You should be given specific suggestions to help you improve. Name-calling is out.

Sounds like a fairy tale, right? Brain injury or not, most employers have trouble giving regularly scheduled, constructive feedback. Instead, employers are most likely to give you feedback -

• When you make a mistake so terrible they can’t help but discipline you.
  
  
• After you’ve made so many mistakes, they finally blow up.
  
  
• In a confused way (because they’ve missed the company deadline for your evaluation).

Supervisors and co-workers have trouble giving constructive feedback because they-

• Have had little practice.
  
  
• Believe that feedback is the same things as criticism.
  
  
• Have given little thought to you because they have so many other important things to do.
  
  

Are concerned about getting sued or disciplined for saying things that you don’t like. Are afraid that you’re too vulnerable from your head injury to "take" negative feedback. Are afraid of your reaction, which might include anger or depression. Think supporting you means not telling you what you do wrong.

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