Monday, February 3, 2020

Feedback Strategies

Why Do So Many Managers Avoid Giving Praise?:
The statistics of the article are interesting.  I think it's strange that managers who believe that they have good feedback are usually the ones with negative feedback.  It's kind of like a loop.  Generally, managers are the leaders over their employees.  One of their main jobs is to give feedback to their subordinates.  But it's interesting that for a manager to give good feedback, that they also need to receive feedback from their employees.  Without feedback from employees, they have almost zero clue whether or not their feedback is even helpful or not. 


The Trouble with “Amazing”:
I can agree with the reasoning for the dislike of the word "amazing".  For me personally, I correlate the word "amazing" sometimes with sarcasm.  In my opinion, the word "amazing" is used usually in only two ways: sarcasm and pure awe.  Both of which don't contribute much to anything.  Sarcasm is just in bad taste.  Pure awe sends off the message that "nothing needs to change".  In both cases, there is no feedback that aims to improve the work of the other person. 


Similarly to the manager-employee example, feedback should also be a loop.

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