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Clear is kind, the delicate dance

If you are a leader, you might have read Brene Brown’s fabulous book, Dare to Lead.Read more...

Is the feedback useful?

How do you decide if feedback offered to you is ‘positive’ or ‘negative’?Read more...

What's getting in the way of your feedback conversations?

Are your beliefs about feedback interfering with your feedback conversations? Your beliefs about feedback hold your feedback behaviour in place. When it comes to the word ‘feedback’, what immediately comes to mind for you? Your childhood experiences, early work experiences, feedback from teachers, coaches and peers all impact your current thinking about feedback. Think back to your very first job, what was your very first workplace experience of feedback?Read more...

Is fear of emotions impacting your feedback conversations?

Often, it’s not the feedback we are fearful of, it’s the emotions that we experience before, during and after feedback conversations we are trying to avoid. We are apprehensive about feedback conversations because we are afraid of how the feedback might make us (or the other person) feel.Read more...

Awkward Growth Spurts

This Christmas break I discovered Canadian author and poet, Danielle LaPorteRead more...

The Future of Feedback

As we head into 2024, let's take a look at the future of Feedback.Read more...

The Future of Feedback

As we head into 2024, let's take a look at six workplace trends that will impact the future of feedback: Multi-generational Workplaces Four Day work week Upskilling requirements Engagement Recruitment & Retention Remote & HybridRead more...

Give yourself permission to reject Feedback

Seth Godin is an Entrepreneur, best-selling Author, and Speaker. In addition to launching one of the most popular blogs in the world, he has written 21 best-selling books, including The Dip, Linchpin, Purple Cow, Tribes, and What To Do When It's Your Turn (And It's Always Your Turn). His book, This is Marketing, was an instant bestseller in countries around the world.Read more...

What's really holding you back from offering feedback?

If you are hesitant about offering feedback, you are not alone. One solution is to quality check your Mindset about feedback, to ensure it is not interfering with your feedback conversations.Read more...

Where are you on the Feedback Offering Ladder?

According to the World Economic Forum, at least a billion people will need to be reskilled over the next decade to deal with technological transformation.Read more...

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...