The person bringing up a problem doesn’t always have a solution, and they don’t need to. An attitude of daring to bring up issues and to solve them together is more important than ready suggestions.
Tag: Feedback
What to do with feedback?
The good news is that you don’t have to accept feedback as is. The bad news is that if you want to be a true professional, you have to receive the feedback, take it seriously and handle it.
The feedback discussion is the most important stage of giving feedback
When we give feedback, we usually want to somehow change another person’s behaviour or actions. Often it requires not only giving feedback but also a discussion that helps the person receiving feedback to process and internalise it.
Don’t give feedback like this
The worst pitfalls for giving feedback are the feedback sandwich, generalisations and back-channeling. All of these have their own downsides, but they all share one issue: they make it harder to receive feedback.