**Most Feedback Is Dreaded: **Here’s how I Exterminate the Dread

Bright Horizons

The issue with the majority of Feedback is that it feels like Criticism.

For instance, Employee Feedback.

An Employee dreads Feedback because it feels like a session of being told where & how one is Not Good Enough.

This signals the wrong thing:

1. No matter what one Does, what one did Not do will always be the Lever.
2. Appreciation will never come.
3. Recognition is only for what went Wrong or What was Missed.

This dreaded Feedback is Ineffective, though, it still prevails as the standard way of giving Feedback.

Criticising someone will never inspire one to Change.

Instead, the criticized Person becomes Resistant to Change & eventually Resentful.

I found this way of giving Feedback flawed, so I experimented and created a new way of giving Feedback.

The Elite Feedback Way

I have tweaked the dreaded Feedback into Constructive Feedback, then added a New Component (Appreciation).

Whenever I am giving Feedback, I have two levers I’m pulling.

1. What you are doing well
2. What you can improve on

The first lever Reinforces what one is already doing Amazingly/Well/Started doing.**

The second lever Opens the Door to Being Better at things one is not Good at.**

The second lever is not Criticising one for not Delivering as Expected.

The second lever is Acknowledging the Issue, then Encouraging one to Be Better, thus inspiring Change in the person.

Next time you give Feedback, pull both Levers.

1. What you are doing well
2. What you can improve on

The New Signals you send

1. What one Did is one Lever. What one Did Not Do is the second Lever.
2. Appreciation is baked into the Feedback session.
3. Recognition is two-pronged. What one is Doing & Confidence in one Improving.

GBTE

This is the latest Edition of Going Beyond The Elite, where I share my Life Lessons, so that you Learn from my Mistakes and don’t Repeat them.

That’s All

That’s all for this Week.

That’s all on Feedback.

Always pull both Levers.

• What you are doing well
• What you can improve on

Give Feedback Elitely.

Be Elite.

Be Fun this Weekend.

PS

Have you ever dreaded Feedback?

Carpe Diem!