I teach at a local college and was teaching this morning on Effective Feedback. This is such an important concept in the workplace both as someone who is the receiver of feedback and the one giving the feedback. Quite often managers tend to want to be liked by their team members and are therefore afraid to give any constructive feedback…they stick to positive feedback. This does nothing to assist the organization or the individual to improve and grow. People are also reluctant to ask for feedback when they have not received it, but this too is important. It shows our managers that we are keen, we are interested and we want to give back and contribute effectively to the company.
Feedback is essential in our performance reviews…telling someone that they “did very well on the XYZ project” is great, but how they did well, providing them with examples and giving some constructive feedback on what to work on for the next time takes things to a whole different level!
Here is a video that helps hit on some of the points above…enjoy!