By Guy Harris How do you like feedback sandwiches? That is common question I get both in Bud to Boss workshops and in work with coaching clients. To set the stage for my answer, I often ask: When you are on the receiving end, what do you think of them? If you are like me and almost every person I have asked that question, you don’t like them. They taste bad. I … [Read more...]
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Remember the Goal for Giving Feedback
By Kevin Eikenberry As a leader and coach, giving feedback is an important part of our job. And while we know that, sometimes we find it hard to give feedback because it doesn’t seem like people accept it. While there are many tactics and specific approaches you can use to give feedback, they will be more important when we start by remembering the goal of feedback. The … [Read more...]
Endorsement or Feedback: Which Do You Want?
Do you ask your team members for their opinions and advice, or are you seeking only their endorsement of your ideas and decisions? What's the difference, you ask? You are seeking endorsement If you express your own opinion, idea or plan of action first, and then ask employees to weigh in. Even the most confident, assertive team members may feel that they can’t disagree … [Read more...]
4 Really Great Reasons to Write Positive Feedback Down
Every leader has been told that offering positive feedback is one of the most valuable things you can do. You've heard of all the benefits. You may have heard that you don’t do it enough. If you’ve been reading this blog, you've likely learned the basics of giving positive feedback successfully, such as: Make it timely Make it meaningful. Make it about the behavior, … [Read more...]
The Differences Between Feedback and Advice
Feedback and advice. Some people use the terms interchangeably. If you look at the most basic definitions, though you see that they really aren't all that similar: Feedback: "A reaction or response to a particular process or activity." Advice: "An opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action, conduct, etc." The words hold very different connotations for … [Read more...]
Making Feedback Timely
We were recently asking the question, How do I make feedback timely? And it's a great question, but before I can answer it, we need to define the word timely... Check that out and the answer to the question in the video below. https://youtu.be/DYu3S1wevdA?rel=0&showinfo=0 Make feedback more timely and it will be easier to accept and apply. @KevinEikenberry … [Read more...]
Making Feedback Meaningful
In our workshops and training, we always advise leaders to give "meaningful" feedback. And this often leads to the question of... What do you mean by meaningful feedback? In today's video, I'll give you four tips on what meaningful feedback is (or isn't). https://youtu.be/h5YBl3bammw?rel=0&showinfo=0 Feedback that is seen as meaningful is more likely to be … [Read more...]
How to Offer Feedback without Creating Resistance
Feedback can be both hard to give and hard to receive. While it’s easy to say that feedback is necessary for us to get better, most people – including me – don’t like to hear what they did that could have been done better. And since most leaders know that people might not want to hear feedback, many leaders are hesitant to offer it. When the time comes to offer feedback, … [Read more...]
6 Ways to Be More Comfortable and Confident When Receiving Feedback
On this blog, we talk a great deal about how you, as a leader, can provide better feedback—that gets results—without busting employees' morale. Today, I want to talk to you about how you, as a new leader, can become much better at receiving feedback. After all, chances are your boss, HR and maybe even your employees will have a great deal to say about your performance, … [Read more...]
Keeping Feedback from Becoming Personal
When you're a new supervisor, it can be hard to give feedback to a team member (particularly one that used to be a "bud) without them taking it personally. To help improve this process and decrease the stress and frustration for all, it helps to start at the beginning. Here's what I mean... https://youtu.be/PyBQRwTEFn4?rel=0&controls=0&showinfo=0 Tweet it out: People … [Read more...]