Feedback is the cheapest, most powerful, yet, most under used management tool that we have at our disposal. Feedback is powerful as it helps people get on track, it serves as a guide to assist people to know how they and others perceive their performance.
Feedback can also be very motivating and energizing. It has strong links to employee satisfaction and productivity. People like to feel involved and identified with their organisation. Feedback can help achieve that state.
Giving feedback
Give more importance to your ideas. Limit your feedback to the most important issues. Too much feedback provided at a single time can be overwhelming to the recipient. Giving too much feedback can make the receiver confuse …show more content…
This will enable you to avoid sounding that you have done something wrong by using “I” and focusing on behaviours, instead of assumed interpretations.
Balance your ideas - Use the “sandwich approach.” Begin by providing comments on specific skills and talents. This provides stimulation and makes it clear for recipient what he should keep doing. Then identify particular areas of improvement and ways how the recipient can make changes. Conclude with a positive comment. This will help to boost the confidence of the recipient.
Be precise - Avoid general comments that may be of very less use to the receiver. Try to include examples to explain your feedback. Try to give alternatives not only the advice which will allows the recipient to decide what to do with your feedback.
Be realistic - Feedback should focus on what should be changed. It is of no use and irritating for receiver to get comments on something which cannot be …show more content…
The way of teaching of our Professor Nermin Zucik is appreciable as he makes everyone involved in the class and while teaching us about the chapters, he interacts with every student and everyone tell their viewpoint on that particular topic. As students have come from different countries and different cultures, each one of us has different views and getting to know about these different views makes it more interesting for me. On the other hand this involvement of whole class makes it easy to understand the topics. During my first week of the class, I was unable to understand some topics because I was new to Canada and the teaching style was different from India and the course was also new to me. But after some days it seemed easy and more interesting to me. And as Organisational Behaviour teaches us skills and how the behaviour of a person should be to be successful in an organisation, it will help me a lot in my future and I can gain and grow my skills to be better at