How To Give Good Feedback

Is the feedback you give to others well-received? This 10,000 word easy-to-read, step-by-step tutorial-manual gives you the tools you need to give good feedback. Full of stories, quizzes, performance tools and examples you can relate to, you need never dread a performance appraisal meeting again. Why not come across as the consummate professional at work? Whether you are the manager or the staff member, you can further your career (or keep your job) by becoming more skilled at feedback. These feedback tools are easy to incorporate, drawing from top academic theorists in the field of behaviour management. This manual gives you real tools and phrases to use when you find yourself asking for or receiving feedback. You’ll be able to identify how to give good feedback and put it into practise. It shows you how to deal with difficult people and how to get yourself heard at work, without giving offense. Often we look back at jobs we've had, friends we've lost touch with, and other connections that have gone flat, we think to ourselves things could have gone better. Was the last conversation a 'feedback' conversation? Did something you said get received badly? Did you clock it? How did we cause offense? Why do some people leave your orbit at the slightest slip-up? Why was your employer restructuring and looking for anyone who didn't 'fit' the corporate voice? Always the victim? The key to future success means playing the game. Feedback is a skill we all need to brush up on and practise. It doesn't come naturally. The only reason you’ve failed at it before is you didn’t have the right understanding of how it works. Don’t let others pass you by, steal your promotion, or leave you feeling hurt and confused. How to Give Good Feedback includes the promise you'll be received well by colleagues, employees, students and friends when you give feedback. This manual • Advanced tips in simple English. • Real life stories where people adjusted their feedback style and achieved real changes. • Self-evaluation tools and quizzes to identify where you fall short, and how to address it. • Feedback tools for identifying how skilled others are at feedback and how you need to pay attention to this. (Especially if you have a 'feedback illiterate' colleague around you.) • Designed for those committing to performance appraisals, managers, employees, coaching and mentoring specialists, life-coaches and related professionals. Remember, if someone has upset you with their feedback, you need the right tools to get heard, get your point across, and do it professionally and without causing offense. This book shows you how to win at work, and best negative colleagues, and others who try to rain on your sunny day.