If you hire and work with employees on a regular basis, you’ll need to provide them with feedback. Feedback, whether positive or negative, informs employees about their performance and gives them an ...

Throughout 2024, I've noticed a recurring theme in conversations with fellow leaders and managers: the struggle to provide effective feedback to employees. Many people managers express a lack of ...

Creating a culture where feedback flows openly and constructively is essential to employee growth and organizational health. But giving and receiving feedback in a way that’s both timely and helpful, ...

Giving and receiving feedback can feel uncomfortable. Yet feedback is one of the most powerful tools we have to build trust, deepen engagement and drive continuous improvement. In this 30-minute ...

Ralph Lauren CEO Patrice Louvet doesn't sandwich his criticism between two compliments, he says. Instead, he gets his point across in one of two ways. For smaller issues, he starts with a person's ...

Many leaders think they’re delivering helpful feedback, but it can come across as demoralizing, ineffective or damaging if not delivered effectively. Feedback must be framed as coaching, not criticism ...

My student's voice trembled as she answered my question. "How do you think you've done so far?" I'd asked her. We'd been together on the general medicine inpatient ward for two weeks—the midpoint of ...

Leda Stawnychko receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Mehnaz Rafi does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

“In athletics, some things like becoming a sprinter can be learned relatively quickly because they take a natural motion and refine it. Others, like boxing, take much longer to master, because they ...

Martina van Heerden is a member of the South African Association of Academic Literacy Practitioners. It can be difficult to tell someone what you think of their work, even if you mean well and even if ...