Start a Feedback Conversation: You’ll Unleash Awareness & Catapult Your Work into A New Level o
I spend a lot of time helping leaders communicate better with the other leaders and co-workers on their teams. When coaching, I notice in...
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- Jul 19, 2019
- 2 min
Talking to Your Team Members (Between the Big Goals, Questions, and Meetings)
You’ve probably had many experiences thinking you’ve explained something your team needs to be doing now—due to new products, new...
- Jul 5, 2019
- 2 min
Giving Feedback to Overly-Confident People
Some people may appear to not need and not want feedback about their work activities. Yet, their actions impact your success and can...
- Apr 5, 2019
- 3 min
Over-Communicate Goals & Prevent the Need to Give Corrective Feedback
The biggest reason you aren’t seeing optimal performance by others all the time is that they don’t see your goals the way you see...
- Jan 22, 2019
- 2 min
Embody the Value You See in Feedback with Your Voice, Posture, & Gestures
When people are serious about a concept they are speaking about and they place a lot of value on the idea, you know it. Their physical...
- Jan 11, 2019
- 1 min
Training Industry Article: Why Conventional Feedback Training Fails
Training Industry published my article in their magazine. Here is a clip from the article. You’ve heard how badly employees want...
- Nov 9, 2018
- 2 min
Sometimes It IS Better To Save Feedback For The Right Moment
The advice I’m about to give goes against all the latest wisdom and research about the value of instant feedback, 100% transparency, and...
- Oct 12, 2018
- 2 min
Stop Scaring Yourself When You Give (or Receive) Feedback
Do you feel a nervous flutter in your stomach when you’re about to give someone corrective feedback? Are you suddenly coming up with...
- Sep 21, 2018
- 2 min
You’ll Have Better Weekends & Sleep Sounder If You Use Everyday Feedback at Work
A surprising personal benefit to building honest feedback relationships with everyone at work is peace of mind at home. Anxiety about...
- Sep 14, 2018
- 2 min
Give Frequent Feedback & Grow a Fantastic Communication Culture
Almost all of us in a leadership role regularly vow to improve communication in our team or company. Especially after a challenging...
- Jul 27, 2018
- 2 min
Successful Feedback Always Includes A Suggestion For Change
Unless you are blowing someone off or hoping they will resign, your feedback has to lay out clearly what you want to see in place of the...
- Jul 20, 2018
- 2 min
How To Break Your Team Members’ Association Between Helpful Feedback And Useless Performance Reviews
Since employees see the concepts of feedback and performance review as intertwined, you will have to demonstrate why that association is...
- Jun 22, 2018
- 2 min
Once You Open the Feedback Spigot, You Will Get Splashed
Once you start giving feedback on a regular basis you will start getting it, too. It’s a natural human reaction that team members will...
- Jun 6, 2018
- 2 min
End Feedback Procrastination: Bust Through The Five Most Common Excuses For Delaying Feedback
If you’re like 80% of leaders at all levels, giving feedback is worse than a root canal. You find convenient excuses to avoid it, until,...
- May 29, 2018
- 2 min
Four Weeks to Fantastic Feedback: Keep Feedback Going On All 4 Wheels!
If you’ve gotten this far, you are seeing some wins! By now, most or all individuals on your team are adding to the group’s performance...
- May 18, 2018
- 3 min
Four Weeks to Fantastic Feedback: Week III: Jump Into Feedback Conversations
No matter how much you feel you still aren’t ready, NOW is the time to start your conversations. Try to talk with half of your team...
- May 11, 2018
- 2 min
Four Weeks to Fantastic Feedback: Week II — Prioritize Changes You Need From Each Person
You will miss out on the value of giving feedback if you don’t figure out what is be best to talk about with each person. You’ll need to...
- May 4, 2018
- 2 min
Four Weeks to Fantastic Feedback: Week I —Make a Clear, Easy Plan
You may have procrastinated about giving regular, honest, feedback, but you truly believe it will help your team. Now…[drum roll...
- Mar 30, 2018
- 2 min
Reduce Anxiety About Giving Feedback: Use COIN To Plan Your Message
C is for Connection You’ll need to connect this feedback to the goal you share with this person. What are both of you trying to...
- Mar 16, 2018
- 2 min
How to Get Great Feedback from a Reluctant Boss
Specify the feedback topics you want to hear about Make it easy to get going by asking for feedback about something specific: “Can you...
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