Need for Feedback

During my internship with the City of Phoenix one thing that helped me significantly was getting constant feedback from colleagues and supervisors regarding my work. Requesting constant feedback was something I picked up during my years working in the cut throat investment banking environment.

Constant feedback helps rectify errors while they can be corrected as opposed to waiting till the end of the year feedback when you cannot go back and fix your mistakes. With the changing working environment in public organizations there is greater emphasis on employee performance. As the economic development intern, I was responsible for creating a database of existing biosciences industry related businesses in and around Greater Phoenix area. I worked on the first 20 businesses on my list and sent it out to my team for their feedback. I got some really helpful feedback that helped me produce a better and more intuitive database for the department. I was also applauded for making the effort to initiate feedback from my team.