Over the years, many organizations have adopted a form of annual performance review that includes scripted questions and rating scales for various measures of job performance. In many ways, these performance reviews are a bureaucratic means of...
Read moreFeedback Is Best Served Warm
Effective leaders understand the benefit of liberally providing both positive and corrective feedback. Positive feedback demonstrates appreciation for the effort and value for the person. Corrective feedback, when done well, demonstrates...
Read more‘Tell Me How I’m Doing’: The Three Elements of Effective Feedback
Management often thinks that wage levels or benefits are the most important elements of creating satisfaction in employees. But instead, workers are saying, “Tell me how I’m doing” or “Help me grow and do a better job.” Of course, they want...
Read moreFeedback for the Team
When we think of feedback, we generally think of those one-to-one conversations in which we, as a leader, seek to nudge the performance of those around us towards some desired or expected model or standard of performance. Feedback is also...
Read moreFeedback Is Best Served Warm
This article providing twelve tips for effective feedback appeared in IndustryWeek magazine and a variety of related newsletters in January of 2021.
Read more‘Tell Me How I’m Doing’: The 3 Elements of Effective Feedback
This article on the elements of effective feedback appeared in Industry Week magazine and a variety of related newsletters in December of 2020.
Read moreEmpty Praise Has Empty Value
Praise or affirmation is often confused with feedback, but they can be quite different. Praise or affirmation is generally a statement meant to pick someone up or make them feel appreciated. Praise is often something like “Atta boy/girl!” or...
Read morePowerful Questions as the Feedback Process
Among the responsibilities of leadership are the development of the team and enabling the development of team members. Providing effective feedback is a crucial part of this growth and development within an organization. Feedback provides the...
Read moreThe Focus of Feedback
The purpose of feedback is to identify specific actions or behaviors on the part of a person or group in order to encourage more of or less of that action or behavior in the future so that we might mold future actions or behaviors toward a vision...
Read moreThe Motive for Feedback
Providing and receiving effective feedback are essential elements of leadership. On the receiving end, feedback helps a leader to learn about strengths and weaknesses or what they are doing well and where they can improve. Among the traits of...
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