Giving and receiving feedback can be like listening to Metallica’s collaboration with the San Francisco Symphony: a little awkward at first, but once you give it a chance, you start to enjoy it.

Creating a culture where feedback flows openly and constructively is essential to employee growth and organizational health. But giving and receiving feedback in a way that’s both timely and helpful, ...

It's interesting how five simple words can make your heart beat faster and your blood pressure rise. Feedback conversations can activate a social threat response, where the brain thinks you’re in ...

Dr. Shanita Williams thinks about feedback a little differently than many people. Good, constructive feedback, she said, is valuable personal and professional information. “It’s someone else’s ...

Matt Dailey, a software engineer for a data management company, was managing a team with an engineer who wasn’t performing well. This was clear to Dailey—and to the employee. Yet, as I describe in my ...

In a workshop titled Giving and Receiving Feedback for JHU Staff, participants will learn about the nature of feedback. Why do we avoid it? What makes it uncomfortable? Who is in control? They will ...

From an ethics perspective, giving and receiving feedback is central to quality improvement at both an individual and institutional level. Last year, I had just finished a frustrating early morning ...

What do the best apps, companies, employees, innovators, parents, partners, creators, and entrepreneurs, among others, all tend to do exceptionally well? They know how to give vital feedback, and they ...

Parents give their kids feedback regularly—usually regarding their behavior, but sometimes in response to their children’s questions or to information they volunteer about situations they’re dealing ...

Leda Stawnychko receives funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Mehnaz Rafi does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

A couple of years ago a person I know—but don’t know well—asked me to write the foreword for his book. I usually say no. For some reason, this time I agreed. You can probably guess where this is going ...

In the workshop called Giving and Receiving Feedback for JHU Staff, participants will learn about the nature of feedback. Why do we avoid it? What makes it uncomfortable? Who is in control? They will ...