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There seems to be a lot of talk about feedback these days. With work going remote, the traditional performance review being rethought, and companies struggling to recruit and retain talent, many organizations are taking a closer look at their feedback practices to make sure they stand up to today’s work environments. In that spirit, muchContinue reading “Is it time to retire the feedback sandwich?”

Today we’re kicking off our “Feedback Stories” series. For each post in this series, we’ll feature a real-life feedback experience — highlighting what went well, what could have been improved, and the impact feedback has on employees. As we’ll see, the way that we receive feedback and how we interpret feedback can have a lastingContinue reading “Feedback Stories: The Impact of an Annual Performance Review Handled Poorly”

Throughout the working world, the traditional performance review system is being reexamined. The speed of business today has accelerated to the point that few teams can wait six months to a year to give/receive feedback. Nor can they take several weeks out of each year to stop and focus on a formal system that, atContinue reading “So, You’re Doing Away with Annual Reviews. What Do You Do Instead?”

Investing in organization or management-wide coaching or feedback training is no small undertaking. It requires employees’ time, a financial investment and a commitment to following through with the philosophy or process being taught, so it’s important to choose the right one for your specific goals. A challenge HR departments and Learning and Development professionals runContinue reading “How to Know If You Need Coaching or Feedback Training… or Both!”

Your employee compensation plan is competitive, your benefits package is generous, you’re scouting talent from the best schools and organizations in the country, but you’re still running into pitfalls that are affecting anything from low performance to lagging sales to HR complaints. It’s very possible that the root of your problems has nothing to doContinue reading “Three Signs You May Have a Feedback Problem at Your Organization”

Constructive feedback is undeniably important in the workplace for an organization to thrive. Study after study has shown the impact that both good and bad approaches to feedback have on employee morale, retention, and productivity. Creating “feedback cultures” in the workplace has been touted as one of the most effective ways to improve performance acrossContinue reading “Why We Struggle with Feedback”

Around 70% of multinational companies are moving away from the outdated annual review approach to feedback, according to data from Josh Bersin of the Harvard Business Review. In this group of forward-thinking companies you’ll find powerhouses such as Adobe, Deloitte, Dell, GE, and Microsoft. But this move away from the annual review doesn’t mean there’sContinue reading “How Better Feedback Can Mean Better Business”

Quiet quitting and The Great Resignation have become an increasingly serious threat to the productivity and sustainability of American companies. Is it possible that the answer to these problems has been sitting right in front of us all along? The great resignation and quiet quitting are very real. Much has been written about the GreatContinue reading “Is Feedback the Antidote to Quiet Quitting and The Great Resignation?”