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If you are uncomfortable giving and receiving feedback, you will not reach your full potential. \u00a0 I am convinced that the most important skill to continuous self-improvement and to helping those around you is the ability to give and receive feedback effectively.\u00a0 At a lecture by Boris Groysberg<\/a> of the Harvard Business School (please see link to his book below), he made a point that giving and receiving developmental feedback is the single biggest skill needed to improve organizations, grow superstars, and develop a culture of development and improvement.\u00a0 Boris says that “developmental cultures” are much better at producing and retaining superstars, and the key to developmental cultures is providing developmental feedback.\u00a0 Some tips for giving good feedback include describing skills\/situations well, being specific, citing examples, and be oriented to helping them improve or problem-solve around the issues.<\/p>\n

At my massage school, the National Holistic Institute<\/a>, we have posters around our campuses that remind the staff and students to “Tell the Truth with Compassion”.\u00a0 The idea is that we are all learning from each other and we need to be comfortable and good at giving and receiving feedback.\u00a0 Usually, we do this well.\u00a0 Occasionally, we need to get things back on track.\u00a0 Now, we have an interesting situation where a couple of our campuses have developed cultures where the teachers are not comfortable giving peer feedback.\u00a0 At most of our campuses, this is one of the most important initiatives to helping all our teachers continuously grow and improve.\u00a0 We have a peer review process where teachers observe other teachers to provide helpful feedback (and maybe learn a few things in observing as well).\u00a0 We are making a determined effort to make all teachers comfortable giving and receiving feedback, specifically at this campus.<\/p>\n

Here is the book by Boris Groysberg:<\/p>\n

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Categories:Culture Is Strategic<\/a>, Execution<\/a>, Reviews<\/a><\/span>
Tags:Boris Groysberg<\/a>, Business Growth & Opportunities<\/a>, Culture<\/a>, Execution<\/a>, Harvard Business School<\/a>, HR<\/a>, Human Resources<\/a>, Teamwork<\/a>
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