A smart manager will see your feedback as a gift, because most never get feedback on their job performance. People get defensive quickly if they feel they are being criticized. So a good approach can ...

The Fast Company Executive Board is a private, fee-based network of influential leaders, experts, executives, and entrepreneurs who share their insights with our audience. BY Jonathan Brierre Many ...

Feedback: the unofficial four-letter word of both the office and the jobsite. As leaders, we spend a lot of time talking. But one of the hardest conversations to get right is feedback—both giving it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DEAR READER: If your colleague is not pulling their weight and/or negatively impacting your work, how should you handle it? Sure, ...

Felicia, a project management director, felt physically ill at the thought of giving tough feedback to her team. She believed that as a leader, it should be easy. But as a Sensitive Striver, it felt ...

The difference between a good leader and a world-class leader is the quality of feedback that he or she gives. That’s because effective feedback leads to behavior change as well as earning respect for ...

If you hire and work with employees on a regular basis, you’ll need to provide them with feedback. Feedback, whether positive or negative, informs employees about their performance and gives them an ...

I have some bad news. If you want to be a good manager, or even team member for that matter, you’ll need to get comfortable giving negative feedback. It’s not going to be high-fives and roses all the ...

Does this look like the hot seat? NOTE: Tuesday, September 25th is the first annual National Psychotherapy Day [website, facebook]. Among the many ways to participate, it's suggested that clients give ...

DEAR READER: If your colleague is not pulling their weight and/or negatively impacting your work, how should you handle it? Sure, we often talk about how to give feedback as a boss and receive it as ...

My student's voice trembled as she answered my question. "How do you think you've done so far?" I'd asked her. We'd been together on the general medicine inpatient ward for two weeks—the midpoint of ...