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Feedback Strategies

 Hello! 

Today I will be talking about different feedback strategies. Last week I spoke about my thoughts on feedback in general but today I will be going into more dept and talk about how I can give feedback to someone else as well as my general thoughts. I have read two articles about feedback: Try Feedforward Instead of Feedback by Marshall Goldsmith and How to Give Feedback Without Sounding Like a Jerk by Adam Grant. 

The first article I read was Try feedforward instead of feedback. I found this article very interesting and the title immediately caught my eye. In the article, Goldsmith talks about both the positive and negative sides of feedback. Goldsmith says that feedback can benefit a person but also can focus on the past and what has already occurred. He then suggests using the method of 'feedforward'. This is when a person suggests how to improve in the future and suggests help. I have never heard of feedforward until I read this article and its clear already that this method is better, if not, more effective than giving 'feedback'. Here are three of many reasons to use feedforward instead of feedback:

 1. You can't change your past, instead, you can improve in the future.

2. It is more positive to help someone be right, rather than prove they were wrong. 

3. People are more inclined to be willing to change if you offer feedforward instead of feedback.

Overall, I enjoyed reading this article as I already feel like I could progress with feedforward and potentially help others out by also using this method.


The second article I read was How to Give Feedback Without Sounding Like a Jerk. I liked this article as it thought me a bit more about giving feedback but not sounding mean while I'm doing it. I'm scared of giving feedback, especially to my friends or people I know in case they take major offence to what I say and then they might learn to hate me forever... Grant mentions many ways of giving feedback or even starting a general conversation about feedback. My favourite method he talks about is taking yourself off the pedestal. Here he talks about how to start a conversation about giving the other person feedback but in a very positive and professional manner. He uses example sentences such as: “Now that we’ve been working together for a while, I think it would be great if we gave each other suggestions for how we can be more effective.” and “I’ve benefited a lot from people giving me feedback, and I’m trying to pay that forward.”


I enjoyed reading these articles and hopefully, they will be able to help me give feedback in a good and positive manner to my fellow peers and even colleagues in the future.


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Thanks for reading.

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