Feedback is a powerful interaction that can change the course of someone's life.

Almost all guidance on delivering feedback focuses on 'œnegative feedback'. Negative feedback merits significant attention because it's hard for many people to deliver and receive. The pillars of Best-Self Management can inform safer, more effective conversations involving 'œnegative feedback'. However - and perhaps more importantly - to help someone become his or her best self, conversations involving recognition and encouragement should receive the same level of attention and forethought.

Join us as 15Five's Director of Best-Self Academy, Dr. Jeff Smith, teaches you a single, simple, step-by-step framework for sharing recognition, encouragement, observations, and redirection. This framework will help people create safety, set a clear intention, share observations, listen, and take action.

Key Learnings:

  • How to create an environment of psychological safety and vulnerability to in order to deliver effective feedback
  • How to give feedback that allows employees to hear it, as well as grow and change without getting defensive
  • How to work with the tension that giving feedback brings up, to make it a positive experience for both the giver and receiver