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Giving constructive feedback

Giving constructive feedback

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Giving constructive feedback

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One of the most valuable things a mentor can do is give and model effective feedback. Now, many people think they're giving feedback when they say great job, but that's just as ineffective as terrible job, because neither of those comments offer data about what to repeat or to change. Now, one of my favorite experiences highlights this. Hi, how's it going? How's the new job? It's good, it's good, Sanyin. It's just, I feel like I'm not getting very good feedback from my boss. Well, can you play out an interaction for me? Yeah, yeah. I mean, for example, I'll finish a project and then I go to ask him for feedback and I ask him how I did and then he just says, great job. Ah, so he is giving you feedback, but it's just not effective feedback. Tell me what you would have done if he had said terrible job. Oh man, if he would have said terrible job, I would say, you know, what could I have done better? So you would have asked him questions in that scenario to understand what you should stop…

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