Tony, a good friend of mine, wanted my advice about how to talk with someone on his team who seems “overly sensitive” to any feedback...

Stepping up your coaching and motivation game through everyday feedback.

If you are currently a manager, you are pressured on many fronts. What you may not realize is that your team members are starving for the...

Now that you began the conversation, keep it going! Follow up by focusing on small chunks of improvement at a time Keep the conversation...

To start a feedback habit in your team, there’s no preparation necessary other than deciding it needs to happen. In the previous blog,...

To start a feedback habit in your team, there’s no preparation needed other than deciding it needs to happen. You want to inspire a...

Not knowing how to start a feedback conversation Back up a second and review important goals you need to share with your team member....

When you’re unsure of how to say what you need to say, it’s easy to put it off. Especially now, when it’s harder and harder to find and...

Once you start giving feedback on a regular basis, you will start getting it, too. When you suggest that your employees could do...

A big frustration has come from leaders of work-at-home teams. You are doing your best to communicate with everyone, but you may not be...

Although your company may have the greater good of employees in mind, any change in company policies may bring out negative reactions,...

Some companies are opening their offices. Some already did. Some decided to let everyone work from home until January. Some for a few...

You may not like it. You may be bad at it. But the worst thing you can do is to avoid or delay giving feedback at work. Everyone has...

Remote or face-to-face The dynamics of feedback are similar, whether you’re talking to people in person, on the phone, or in a Zoom or...

I’ve often brought up the topic of feedback at dinner parties with close friends, asking leaders at the table how they feel about giving...

Now that you and your company are making new decisions about where you’re going to work—office, home, or hybrid, you may be wondering how...

In almost every organization you can think of, leaders like you are told to give feedback and develop their employees. If you own your...

Kudos to you if you care about feedback and want to boost your success on the job. Double kudos if you are willing to ask your...

After all of these months of forced virtual meetings and frustrations along the way, there’s something you can still do to dramatically...

You may have an aha! experience of realizing that feedback is something you need to do. Now. And on a regular basis. Even though a lot of...

Try out exchanging “everyday feedback”—clear honest, frequent, and helpful feedback—with people on your team right away. Many team...

Use this list to select the items you aren’t already doing that hold the highest promise for better communicating with work team members.

Here are some tips for leading the feedback effort in your team.

Here are some ideas for leading a better year for your team.