Providing constructive feedback in the workplace is a proactive way to help ensure employees are performing up to expectations and challenging themselves professionally. When done correctly, ...

Originally Published Mar. 11, 2018. Listening to constructive feedback about your performance is rarely easy to hear, but it’s required to become successful. The Little Black Book of Success is a ...

Giving and receiving criticism is uncomfortable, even with only 27 employees. Defector Media’s quest to address that dilemma ...

Six tips for how to give powerful feedback as a leader, using empathy, being specific, and body language for feeding back positively and developing reports.

No wonder managers struggle with feedback. This seemingly simple communication and performance development tool is surprisingly challenging to get right. In my experience teaching and helping many ...

Through education, training and encouragement, leaders can help empower differing insights to be more constructive and keep the ideas flowing. By fostering emotional safety and demonstrating ...

If you take a scroll through your LinkedIn feed, you’ll likely notice a trend: former employees relaying cautionary tales about how they were mistreated by companies who shamed them for minor mistakes ...

Securing constructive feedback is critical in helping you find out which decisions are working and which ones are not. Yet, many organizations fail to effectively engage their stakeholders due to a ...

When I was a young manager, I used to hate the thought of giving negative feedback to those on my team. “What if it doesn’t go well?” I’d ask myself. “What if they completely miss the point? Or, worse ...

Employee evaluations should not be an exercise in criticism and disapproval. Instead, provide constructive criticism by telling the employee what he does well and not so well, and he can improve. If ...

It’s not uncommon to feel uncomfortable in the face of constructive criticism or feedback, even when we’re expecting it in places like the workplace. According to a study from the Journal of ...

When it comes to giving constructive feedback, there is a fine line between helpful and condescending. To avoid crossing that line, stay away from these phrases. Dishing out constructive criticism isn ...