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How to Give Feedback: Your Ultimate Guide to Giving & Receiving Feedback That Works

Latest Feedback Posts

When NOT to use a Performance Improvement Plan

There are plenty of scenarios where using a performance improvement plan isn’t the best option. Here’s when you should skip the PIP

When a Performance Improvement Plan Could Help Your Employee

Is a PIP the right choice for your situation? Will it work? Is it worth the effort? Here are some tips on determining if ...

Don’t Include Feedback in Year-End Reviews

Including feedback in a year-end appraisal conversation confuses development and evaluation. It’s best to provide subjective feedback during the year and keep the review ...

Monthly Tips – For All Your Workplace Woes.

Spotlight Focus: Delivering Effective Feedback

How to Actually Give Helpful Feedback

How to Give Positive Feedback

How to Deliver Feedback

Unconventional Wisdom on Constructive Feedback

Maybe You Shouldn’t Give Feedback

Virtual Teams and How to Give Feedback from Afar

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Feedback Post Archive

When Not to Use a PIP with Liane Davey

When NOT to use a Performance Improvement Plan

  Considering putting an employee on a performance improvement plan? Don't do it! Okay, let me explain. Performance improvement plans were invented as a way of creating due process—fairness— ensuring...
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Don’t Include Feedback in Year-End Reviews

This is probably an unpopular opinion, but a performance evaluation conversation is no place for feedback. The end of the performance management cycle is the time to sum up the...
Strike Zone with Liane Davey

How to Ask For Feedback

  Asking for feedback is always important. Feedback is a great source of new insight into how your behavior affects other people. It's also a direct way to close the...
Feedback Options with Liane Davey

Knowing When to Give Feedback… and When Not To

  Feedback is a really important developmental dialogue , but it's not the only developmental dialogue. Let's think about what feedback is and how it compares to other options we...
Negative Feedback with Liane Davey

How to Give Negative Feedback

  Feedback is incredibly valuable because it’s the only way we can understand the impact of our behavior on other people . There really is no other way. We’re usually...
Positive Feedback with Liane Davey

Giving Positive Feedback

  Feedback is so valuable because it's the one thing we can't get on our own. We can’t know how our behavior affected someone else; we can only know what...
Alternatives to Feedback with Liane Davey

Tips to Avoid Giving Ineffective Feedback

  Feedback can be one of the most precious gifts, but it often doesn't feel like one . One of the reasons it doesn't feel like a gift is that...
Feedback Fundamentals with Liane Davey

How to Actually Give Helpful Feedback

  One of the most valuable tools we have to grow, develop, and improve is feedback. But I’m willing to bet that you don’t really give people feedback and you...
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How to Give Positive Feedback

What did you do the last time you saw a colleague do something remarkable? Did you think, “Wow, that’s awesome,” and go about your day? Did you toss off a...

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Exercise: Giving Feedback Gently

Occasionally, I focus the blog on sharing the techniques I use to facilitate important conversations among individuals and teams. I inherited this one and I love it so much, I’m...
What happens when someone comes to you to complain about one of your team members? Should you pass on feedback or ask the person to give the message directly?

Passing on Feedback for Someone Else

One of the most precarious situations you can get in as a manager is when someone comes to you with feedback about one of your team members and asks you...
One of the main reasons we don't give constructive feedback is because we fear an ugly reaction. Don't fear it, expect it!

How to Cope with Backlash to Your Feedback

I facilitated a workshop this week that has given me lots of juicy fodder for discussion here with you. The session focused on uncomfortable discussions, including considerable time on how...