7 ways to elicit better workplace feedback
Most companies have a serious deficit of unvarnished truth. Here’s how to improve your discourse, build trust, and create healthier expectations among employees.
No one likes to be criticized, and most people shy away from anything resembling conflict.
But with the right approach, in an environment where everyone’s focus is on improving performance, raw feedback is a powerful tool.
Here are seven ways to succeed with workplace feedback:
1. Teach your team the real purpose of feedback.
Feedback discussions are business discussions where the individuals involved strive to identify behaviors that contribute to or detract from high performance. The focus must be on connecting behaviors to performance outcomes and then discussing how this behavior can be strengthened in the future. That’s it.
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2. Work to create a healthy feedback environment with your team.
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