Tag: feedback
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Using Employee Feedback to Guide Decision Making
Almost every conversation our team has with business leaders touches on today’s pace of change. That pace often prompts employers to make quick decisions, but the problem is those are not always made with the right data on hand. For example, you’re looking for ways to educate your workforce and provide them with the information…
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7 Ways to Get Managers to Provide More Feeback
The other day I happened across a blog that posed a very interesting question: Feedback would happen all the time if..? So, what would you say? I can’t reign it in to just one idea, so here are seven things I think would lead to more feedback in the workplace.
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Running, Calories, and Manager Communication
If you’ve followed for a while you know I enjoy running (I’m on MapMyRun, if you’d like to connect!) I’m also a bit of a nutrition nut due to a high school stint in wrestling, several years of running marathon distances and longer, and generally being a nerd. One thing that I have learned over…
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Group Feedback is Ineffective and Insulting
This just in: group feedback isn’t the best tool in your performance management toolbox… I was running through some old emails the other day and found an example I had to share. Several years ago I was working as a high school wrestling referee. It was definitely a tough job, but I learned some good…
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How to Give Critical Feedback at Work (Video)
Learning how to give critical feedback isn’t difficult, but actually doing it can be! Check out the video (and notes) below for some recent research on how to put this communication tool to use in your organization. Video on why and how to give critical feedback Email subscribers click here to view the video Video notes…
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Employee Performance: Manage and Prosper
A performance discussion for those who manage others I have been thinking a lot about performance management lately-namely, how can managers get it done faster, better, and more effectively? I run into complaints about all areas of performance feedback: how to do it, what to say, how to have time for it, etc. I get…
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Job Feedback-You’re Doing it Wrong
I heard a new term to describe poor job feedback recently at the SHRM 2012 Conference, and I just had to share it here. gunnysack feedback  [guhn-ee-sak feed-bak] noun the act of saving all of an employee’s feedback over time and delivering it all at one time during an annual performance review; see also terrible management…