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How to Implement a Positive Feedback Culture in Your Organization
Feedback is an absolutely critical component of any organization. It’s an important tool and can work wonders when implemented correctly within an organization. But many employees and leaders alike dislike feedback or fear it, when it should actually be the opposite. This tends to be because they have had negative experiences with feedback, where it’s […]
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Ways to Give Effective Employee Feedback
Giving proper feedback can be an incredibly beneficial tool, but if done the wrong way, it can be quite detrimental. Feedback needs to be offered in the right way for it to be used successfully by an employee. If given incorrectly, it can make them feel quite defensive, somewhat attacked, and unmotivated. Good feedback has […]
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Employee Feedback: A Guide to How to Act on Critical Employee-Generated Information
The old performance management methodology is slowly being eroded. Instead, more and more companies are moving to a more agile process that incorporates timely feedback through check-ins and one-on-ones. This results in the ability to create real-time changes in employee performance. In addition, more and more managers are realizing the importance of not just providing […]
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How to Use Surveys to Get Employee Feedback
Too often, performance management flows downhill. Managers observe employees, and then give feedback during one-on-ones to improve performance and change outcomes. However, that one-way flow is detrimental and can create disengagement. To build an engaged workforce, you must listen to what your employees are saying. Doing so shows them that they are valued and that […]
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Drive Employee Feedback with the Right Questions
As a business leader, your goal is to build a thriving organization, just as much as it is to serve your customers or clients. In fact, without a healthy, growing company, it becomes impossible to achieve your mission of delivering the right products or services to your audience. In the quest to create that organization, […]
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The Art of Giving Employee Feedback: Tips for Managers to Improve Performance
PM isn’t what it once was. Not that long ago, you might have met with each employee once or twice per year, provided them with a list of complaints (and maybe a couple of compliments) about their performance, and then expected them to act on those. Today, things have changed a lot. Gone is the […]
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How to Solicit Feedback from Employees: A Manager Self-Improvement Guide
Once, feedback was only seen as offering value when it flowed downward. Today, we understand the folly of that idea. To be successful, managers need coaching just as much as employees. However, it can be challenging for managers to ask for feedback. Whom do you ask? What do you ask them for? What questions should […]
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How to Give the Most Effective Feedback to Your Employees
In performance management, few things are as critical as feedback. It’s not just the information that you provide to your employees, though. It’s also the way in which you deliver it, the atmosphere, the culture of your company, and so much more. Sadly, despite the complexity and importance, too many managers whiff the ball. They’re […]
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Increasing the Value of Feedback: Why Employees Should Ask for It
Chances are good that your managers strive to provide at least some feedback to the employees they manage. It might come in the form of annual performance reviews, or maybe you’ve caught up with the evolution of performance management and are using regular check-ins and smaller conversations to help guide employees. Feedback offers a strong […]