Giving Feedback: Expert Solutions to Everyday Challenges

by Harvard Business School Press (compiler)

Feedback is an essential interactive process meant to help the recipient learn, grow, and change. We all need feedback to learn how to go forward. If we're right on, then positive feedback lets us know our work is meeting--or exceeding--expectations. If we're having a problem, then feedback, whish is more informal and less intimidating than a performance evaluation, can put us on the right track. This guide provides proven strategies for developing and managing feedback skills.

About the Mentor: Jamie O. Harris is a Senior Associate with Interaction Associates, Inc., where he provides organizational change consulting services to both public and private sector clients and leads workshops on facilitations skills, leadership, and collaborative change. He also serves as the company's corporate counsel, having practiced business and real estate law for more than 20 years before joining Interaction Associates. Mr. Harris received his B.A. in political science and economics and his J.D. from Yale University.

Genres: Business, Nonfiction, Leadership, Management

96 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 14, 2006

Reviews

[Ryan Barretto · Rating 5 out of 5]

A super book detailing with examples how to give feedback to subordinates and to your boss. Simple templates are given to help you prepare for the feedback meetings.

The nice part - you can use the concepts at home as well as the office.

[Samuel · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very basic, if you never heard of feedback techniques before, this is ok.

[Sebastian Pereira Pereira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very useful to prepare feedback for performance reviews.

[Joseph · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent primer on giving feedback.

[Lori Grant · Rating 5 out of 5]

A must-read book new managers, executives, and entrepreneurs.