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Finally. A new feedback model

Today I received a LinkedIn message from a leader today: ‘I am interested to hear about the Feedback Fitness model. The 'feedback sandwich' seems to have been eaten and not been as great as was once touted, so would like to unpack what takes its place for effective feedback.  Cheers, Nick’.Read more...

Waiting for the perfect moment

If you are aiming for perfection in your feedback conversations —good luck! Feedback conversations are often messy and imperfect. Your armour gets in the way! Emotions complicate things.Read more...

A Checklist: Useful Beliefs about receiving feedback

How you think about receiving feedback supports your feedback-receiving behaviour and holds it in place. If you believe that receiving feedback is dangerous, a threat or something to avoid, that thinking will result in you trying to avoid feedback—and you certainly will not be seeking it out.Read more...

The Feedback Hangover

I had an interesting conversation with a current coaching client this week. She described receiving unexpected feedback and how it ‘hung around’ and clouded her thinking for a fortnight. In fact, it really bothered her!Read more...

How ‘Feedback-able’ is your potential team member?

Recruiting the right person to the role and to your team is so important. Will they be a good fit to the culture, the existing personalities and do they have the right approach to learning?Read more...

Feel Good Feedback

How often do you ask for feedback, and what is your intention in receiving it? While it’s useful to receive feedback, you don’t need feedback to feel good about yourself.Read more...

The Power of a Pre-frame

As shared in previous Newsletters, the Feedback Fitness model is made up of three distinct stages.Read more...

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...