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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...

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...

Finding the joy in Feedback

In my last blog, I shared how surprised I was that the two teams I worked with both stated they wanted to feel more joyful at work.  It got me thinking about how Leaders can use feedback to facilitate more joy through their feedback conversations.Read more...

How does your team want to feel?

A few weeks ago, I delivered two ‘Team Re-Connect’ Workshops for two very different teams.Read more...

Are you Circling Back in your feedback Conversations?

Brene Brown uses the term ‘Circling Back’ to describe revisiting a feedback conversation after she has had time to think about the feedback offered to her.Read more...

Going Upstream

I’ve been fascinated by Dan Heath’s book, ‘Upstream’. Basically, it’s about the power of foreseeing a problem at the source, so you can reduce the likelihood of it occurring.Read more...

Free yourself from Feedback Fears

I was delivering a Feedback Fitness workshop last month and we were talking about where we were on the Feedback Receiving ladder.Read more...