Posts Tagged ‘feedback’
What is your perception of the year-end performance-review process?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 160,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each Tuesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: What is your perception of the year-end performance-review process? It’s OK. It enables some development, but other parts aren’t meaningful: 38% [...]
How often does feedback become unconstructive?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 160,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each Tuesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: How often does feedback become unconstructive? Sometimes. People don’t always provide actionable feedback: 71% Often. Too much feedback becomes distracting and [...]
How much feedback is too much?
Everyone needs feedback. It’s hard to get motivated to reach a goal or complete a project, and impossible to stay motivated in the face of difficulty, when you aren’t sure if you are on the right track. None of us are truly comfortable flying blind. For any leader or manager, giving frequent, carefully crafted feedback [...]
How rigorous are you about delivering midyear reviews?
SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 150,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each Tuesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: How rigorous are you about delivering midyear reviews? We always provide midyear feedback to our people in a structured way, 41% [...]
This week’s most clicked
The 5 most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Workforce this past week: Why hiring the overqualified may backfire What Katy Perry’s attire can teach management Recession raises risks of employment-bias lawsuits Jim Collins: Make sure you’re hiring the right people How to initiate tough talks 4 ways to build workplace relationships
How to manage your boss the right way
This guest post is by Bruce Tulgan, author of “It’s Okay to Manage Your Boss” and founder of RainmakerThinking, a management training firm. The vast majority of employees in the workplace today are not getting enough direction and support from their bosses, research conducted by my firm suggests. “Undermanagement” is very bad for the bottom [...]
The art (and science) of giving good feedback
This guest post is by Heidi Grant Halvorson, a motivational psychologist and author of “Succeed: How We Can Reach Our Goals,” as well as author and co-editor of the highly-regarded academic book “The Psychology of Goals.” Follow her on Twitter at @hghalvorson. Feedback is more than just useful — it’s essential. It’s hard to get [...]
How do you give feedback?
Jill Geisler kicked off 2010 by blogging “What Great Bosses Know about 5 Resolutions Worth Keeping,” and now she’s fleshing out the details on how to keep those resolutions, starting with five ways to “double your feedback.” I agree with Geisler that more feedback is, in most cases, a good thing because employees crave it [...]
