We can tangle ourselves in knots when it comes to giving feedback (whether positive or corrective). Particularly us awkward Brits. We dress it up. Put frills and a bow on it. Ahhh – don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings. Or we feed people sandwiches. Then we get vexed when the recipient of this cat’s [...]
Photo: Charlotte Allen, nupix ‘How to give feedback’ is one of Zoomly’s most popular workshops - but what about being on the receiving end? Most of us can feel pretty squeamish at the idea of someone giving us feedback, but we need to understand that feedback is a two-way street. If we expect [...]
Starting line at sack race: everett225 (Ron Harvey) So you missed out on promotion? Maybe that appraisal didn’t go anything like as well as you hoped. Now one or two of your peers aren’t your peers any more - they got promoted and you didn’t. It feels pretty rubbish; it happened to me once. [...]
Confession time: until I’d had some feedback and done a series of assessments, I was pretty much in the dark about what I was good at – and what my weaknesses were. Of course I had an idea – but it was just that, with incomplete evidence. So the first time I did an assessment [...]