- Letting someone go is never easy
Flora Devlin's wise words on one of the most difficult aspects of management. - On critics
Nancy Choi's excellent advice on how to leverage criticismh - Are you being indirect? You're also being unkind.
Alia and Fiona share some stories about the importance of being direct and guidance to help overcome the challenges that it brings - How to give feedback without killing morale
Mathias Meyer shares advice on overcoming a common fear about giving feedback - Underperformer
John Cutler's reminder that context matters, no one IS an underperformer - How does your board see your performance?
Evgeny Shadchnev offers excellent advice on getting feedback in situations where people have strong incentives to avoid criticising you personally. - How to get good at giving feedback
James Samuel offers clear, actionable advice on giving feedback well - How to have difficult conversations
Practical tips on giving difficult feedback from Mil Darakananda - Accountability Dial — what it is, how to use it, and how it will help your team
Jonathan Raymond's Accountability dial is a really helpful way for you to consider how you escalate when people you manage do not respond to your feedback. This can help you avoid getting stuck and also avoid holding back on feedback before finally exploding. - 5 steps for giving feedback
Marlies Butterworth's video guides you through 5 steps to give effective feedback - Unlocking Your Potential
Kate Leto offers guidance on how to make the most of 360 degree feedback - Manage up without getting (too) salty about it
Lara Hogan provides some guidance on giving feedback to your manager - Terrified the engineers will quit
Squirrel and Jeffrey trade stories about leaders who live in fear of key software developers leaving, and therefore avoid honest feedback and effective reprimands. - Humans+Tech Podcast - Michael Lopp
This interview is focussed on feedback and is full of valuable stories and advice - Effective confrontation
Simon Sinek shares the Feelings, Behaviour, Impact (FBI) approach to confrontation - How to give good compliments
You appreciate the amazing people around you so let them know. Anna J McDougall's excellent advice will make this easier for you. - Strategy, not self-expression: How to decide what to say
Wes Kao offers key advice on identifying what is useful feedback from all the thoughts and feelings you may wish to share - Giving and receiving feedback
Great advice from Chelsea Troy about how to give and receiving feedback - How to hold your team accountable
Dave Bailey offer's a summary of Jonathan Raymond's Accountability Dial framework to help you think about how you hold your team accountable. - Roleplaying difficult conversations
Lara Hogan's recommendation of using role play to prepare for difficult conversations is a practice that I have found incredibly helpful - How to have a difficult conversation
A series of excellent pieces of advice from Hayley Lewis for the before, during and after of difficult conversations - Stop complaining about your colleagues behind their backs
Deborah Grayson Riegel's reminder that the first step to reducing gossip is recognising your own part in it - Feedback equation
Lara Hogan shares a simple model for giving feedback - How to make a sandwich
Dan North's advice on offer effective feedback from 'porpoise' feedback to offering a 'leading edge' - Criticism and ineffective feedback
Kate Heddleston on the value of helping people understand how to improve rather than telling them what they are doing wrong - The Anonymous Feedback Trap
An excellent article from Gustavo Razzetti's about how anonymous surveys fail to build trust and what you can do instead - The five conditions for improvement
Roy Rapoport's clear statement of the conditions for improvement is a great foundation for conversations about performance - Overcoming triangulation: How to stop that toxic backchanneling
Michael Seitchik gives some great advice on over coming triangulation and enabling people to give feedback directly to one another - How to disagree with someone more powerful than you
Amy Gallo offers clear practical advice on disagreeing more effectively - Giving presentation feedback
Lara Hogan gives excellent advice on how to give people useful feedback on their presentations - Giving, asking and receiving feedback posters
c/o #govdesign - The new one minute manager
Ken Blanchard's book focusses on feedback as the key to management and provides some simple models for providing clear feedback
Getting feedback
Advice for getting more useful feedback
- “We need to talk” - How to receive feedback like a boss
Marco Alabruzzo's CTO Craft Con talk offers excellent insight and advice on receiving feedback well - The best leaders are feedback magnets
Shivani Berry's excellent advice on how to get more feedback - The Fingerprint Principle
Esther Darby gives some great advice on letting people for getting buy-in for change. This approach also gets feedback on your ideas sooner and enables better decision making. - Better feedback
Maria Campbell offers advice on how to get more useful feedback - Using the Johari window to get feedback at work
Katie Marcus shares a technique for gathering feedback to gain a better understanding of yourself - Unlock honest feedback from your employees with this one word
Claire Lew suggests asking for advice instead of feedback to make it easier for people to share - Can your employees really speak freely?
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Practical advice from James R. Detert and Ethan Burris for improving feedback loops within hierarchies - Thanks for the Feedback
Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone's book which is excellent for helping you get the most out of feedback
Performance reviews
Advice for handling performance reviews
- Writing performance reviews with positive constructive feedback
Great advice from Julia Evans on writing performance reviews - Receiving Feedback
Julia Zhuo offers some practical suggestions for getting the most out of performance reviews
Code reviews
Tips for asking for and giving code reviews
- Code review best practices
Trisha Gee's talk is a great overview of why and how you can carry out effective code reviews - How to do code reviews like a human
Michael Lynch offers some really excellent advice in this two parter on giving code reviews