Quick Q: Is this is terrible response to "personal feedback" secondary question?

[stayathomemom]

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Condensed version: Made a judgement call in a leadership position. There was no way to appease everyone. Pissed off a lady and she let me have it. Couldn't tell her why I made the call because of confidentiality promise (couldn't even tell her there was a confidential reason, just apologize). It was tough but that's leadership.

Is this a terrible response? Or are they trying to get me to say something along the lines of "My boss said I could work harder so I reflected on it and agreed so I improved."? My worry is that they're fishing for self-reflection and self-improvement, which my response doesn't really have. Unfortunately I haven't really been in a position that I've received any constructive criticism (no employment) so I don't have much to draw from.

 

[suomi24]

Either of those sound like they could work if the wording is about criticism or feedback. For the first, you could talk about respectful communication and making hard decisions as a leader. For the second, you could talk about the initial "failure" to work hard enough, do some introspection on what sort of things you learned or how it was hard to receive negative feedback but you learned how that's an important skill, then tie it into medicine and how being able to receive feedback and learn from failure is important in medical education and medicine in general.

This is just my two cents though. I'm also applying right now so take my advice with a grain of salt.

 

[stayathomemom]

Thank you, @suomi24 for your input. 🙂
Anyone else?

 

[deleted972488]

I don't think your answer is a great one. It doesn't have to be in a professional setting. Maybe in a personal setting, someone gave some constructive feedback?