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What Simon says about Feedback

Best-selling author Simon Sinek is known for his TED Talk on the concept of WHY, which has been viewed over 60 million times, and his video on millennials in the workplace—which reached 80 million views in its first week and has gone on to be seen hundreds of millions of times. Read more...

Three Learnings for Leaders from a Feedback Failure

Have you ever had a not-so-positive feedback conversation and been able to take the learnings from it? ‘Sally’ (not her real name), a leader, shared a fascinating feedback story that is both shocking and useful! Read more...

Is your team comfortable with peer-to-peer feedback conversations

A Leader I have been working with, let's call her ‘Sam’ conducted a Warm-Up conversation with her team of twelve. The intention of the conversation was to generate discussion about how the team members could offer and receive feedback from each other. In other words, peer-to-peer feedback. Read more...

How to get your team talking about feedback

A Case Study in how Leaders can initiate a Team Feedback Conversation A leader, ‘Sally’, is a participant in my Unshakeable Leaders program. As part of the Leadership program, we recently spent half a day covering the Feedback Fitness Framework. Read more...

Dr Louise Mahler - A Feedback Festival

A few weeks ago, I was fortunate enough to participate in a one-day public speaking course with the amazing Dr Louise Mahler. I must admit I was feeling nervously excited about the training. As well as wanting to improve my speaking and presenting skills, I was very curious as to how Louise would offer feedback to a room full of people for a full day. (It turned out to be a beautiful Feedback Festival!) Read more...

Brene Brown on Feedback

You have probably heard of Brene Brown. Brené Brown is an American professor, author, and podcast host, and is famous for her work on shame, vulnerability, and leadership. More recently, she has been researching emotions, and her book Atlas of the Heart is one of my all-time favourite reads. Read more...

Feedback Flow

You may have heard of bestselling author and psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s book ‘Flow – The Psychology of Optimal Experience’. This popular book has been around since 2008. I revisited some his other work this week. Read more...

Feedback Fitness from a self-made Multi-Millionaire

I’m in the process of writing my new book, Feedback Fitness, and reaching out to people across different industries and interviewing them about their thoughts and experiences on feedback in the workplace. Read more...

Adam Grant & the Feedback Sandwich

You may have heard of the feedback sandwich approach, also commonly referred to as a very unpleasant type of sandwich. Basically, it involves offering feedback in the following format: start with ‘positive’ feedback, offer the ‘negative’ feedback, then finish with ‘positive’ feedback. Read more...