Lesson 3: Provide effective feedback (3.20)
Next steps
• In this lesson you learned how to conduct feedback conversations in order to build alignment, enable execution, and foster renewal on your team.
• As a giver of feedback, your intention should always be to help the person. If this isn’t your intention, don’t give the feedback.
• Before you start a feedback conversation, manage your emotions and check your intention. Then ask for permission to give the feedback.
• When you're ready to start a feedback conversation, keep these steps in mind:
o Share an observation
o State the impact
o Pause
o Explain what you need
o Engage in a solution-focused dialogue
• The fear of a bad outcome is a common barrier to giving feedback. To address that fear, reframe the issue by:
1. Focusing on facts;
2. Naming and disputing your assumptions; and
3. Generating an alternative view
• Finally, feedback flows in all directions—upwards, downwards, and peer-to-peer
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Try it now. Put these new skills to work right away:
• Reframe a past event. Think back to a time when you were frustrated by an action taken by a coworker. Using the techniques described in the lesson, think about the facts of the situation, and make a conscious effort to dispute any negative assumptions you made about your coworker’s intentions. Try to generate an alternative view, for example:
o If your coworker “cut corners,” on his/her work, move from “he/she doesn’t care about process,” to “he/she was trying to hit our deadline.”
o If your coworker offered a critique of your work, move from, “it always has to be her/his way,” to “he/she really wants this deliverable to be its very best.”
• Offer strengths-based feedback. Identify a strength in someone that you work with. Share your observations of the strength, and encourage that person to build that strength into a distinctive area of excellence.
Before you move on, you can download and keep:
Lesson 3 key takeaways: a summary of key points covered in this lesson
A worksheet to help you prepare for feedback conversations
You may view additional videos on this topic:
Michiel and Kirstan describe the value of positive feedback.
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Fred Swaniker shares how a timely feedback session when he was a young professional still impacts him today.
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James Gorman stresses the importance of asking for feedback, no matter how senior you get.
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Darren Brehm tells a story of successfully sharing upward feedback.
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Feedback and coaching go hand-in-hand. While feedback is a targeted intervention, usually focused on a particular event or behavior, coaching takes a longer view of a person’s development goals. In Lesson 5, experts Ramesh Srinivasan and Kirstan Marnane will walk you through tips and techniques for coaching your teams.
Next, you’ll take a brief assessment to check your knowledge of the material in Lessons 1-3.
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