How to Give Constructive Feedback to Help Your Team Succeed

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The only reason to give feedback is if it can help them with their project, right? So it's like, if you just give it in a way where they're not emotionally able to receive it, then you've kind of defeated the purpose. I try to give the vibe, we were on a team together trying to figure out how to do this thing really well and like, hmm, have you thought about this? Well, what about that? Could this be a problem and so on?"

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Is it possible to be both agreeable and skeptical in conversations? How can you give feedback and challenge people constructively without triggering their automatic self-defense mechanisms? More generally, how can you challenge people intellectually without riling them up emotionally? What skills are needed to be able to have detailed, productive conversations across a wide range of topics? How can you push through plateaus in the process of self-improvement? What are podcasts as a medium good for?

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