This Week with Introspective

The definition of Feedback from the Skills Discovery:

• You enjoy giving people both positive and negative feedback.

• You believe people need to know what they have done well, so that they can build on it and progress.

• You give people accurate developmental feedback so that they know where they can improve.

Questions to help you bring this strength to life:

• Who in your life is overdue for feedback — positive, constructive, or both — that you've been putting off giving?

• Before your next feedback conversation, how can you prepare so the other person hears it as care, not criticism?

• What's one piece of feedback you've received recently that you haven't fully acted on yet?

Resources of the Week

Article

How Effective Feedback Fuels Performance

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Employees are hungry for performance feedback from their leaders, managers and peers. They want to gain insights that advance their abilities and future potential. And more than ever, employee feedback is pivotal for engagement.

By Denise McLain and Bailey Nelson

Video

TedTalk: How to lead with radical candor

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"How can you say what you mean without being mean?" asks CEO coach and author Kim Scott. Delving into the delicate balance between caring and challenging when leading in the workplace, she introduces "radical candor" as the way to give constructive criticism, compassionately.

By Kim Scott

Book

The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More, and Change the Way You Lead Forever

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In The Coaching Habit, coaching becomes a regular, informal part of your day so managers and their teams can work less hard and have more impact.

By Michael Bungay

Strength Story: Jake

The Strength of Feedback

For Jake, Feedback is more than pointing out what someone could do better. It's an act of trust. His Feedback strength shows up in the care he takes to understand how each person is likely to receive hard truths, pairing honesty with empathy and preparation. As a college football player at Bowdoin, he's learned this most directly in end-of-season meetings with his coaches, where the conversation always goes both ways.

For Jake, Feedback is a two-way gift. Every time he offers it, he ends up learning something too.

Fact of the Week

Specific, timely feedback is one of the most powerful drivers of learning and development. A landmark review by John Hattie and Helen Timperley found that feedback can significantly accelerate growth and performance.

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