652: How to Encourage Team Feedback, with Bonni Stachowiak
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Oct 30, 2023
Dive into the dynamics of team feedback, exploring how trust and support can transform peer evaluations. Discover alternatives to traditional performance reviews that prioritize skills over static metrics. Join a heartfelt discussion on the rituals that can help leaders find fulfillment in their roles, combating feelings of thanklessness. Experience insights on servant leadership, emphasizing empathy and recognition. Reflect on your personal motives for leading and uncover strategies to enhance your leadership journey.
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Improving Team Feedback
First, set team feedback norms and expectations.
Then, try safer feedback methods like feedforward, focusing on future suggestions.
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Trust and Feedback
Combining formative and summative feedback in one process can decrease trust.
This makes providing and receiving honest feedback challenging.
insights INSIGHT
Nine-Box Concerns
Nine-box talent mapping can be discriminatory, especially regarding potential.
Focus on skills and performance instead of broad potential ratings.
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A Guide to Alternative Grading Practices That Promote Authentic Learning and Student Engagement in Higher Education
Robert Talbert
David Clark
FeedForward
FeedForward
Marshall Goldsmith
In this book, Marshall Goldsmith explores how successful people can become even more successful by changing their behaviors. He introduces the concept of 'feedforward,' a future-focused approach to personal development that complements traditional feedback by focusing on future improvements rather than past mistakes.
Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed
Bonni is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, Dean of Teaching and Learning and Professor of Business and Management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, she was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. Bonni is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.
Listener Questions
Tony asked our opinion on his plan to have the team provide feedback to each other directly.
Lean wondered about alternatives to the nine box talent mapping framework that some organizations use.
Qasim noted that leadership can sometimes feel thankless and asked if we had any rituals to help minimize this.
Resources Mentioned
FeedForward: Coaching for Behavioral Change by Marshall Goldsmith
What Is the 9-Box Model? by Brian Anderson
Warning: This Is Not Your Grandfather’s Talent Planning featuring Kim Scott
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How to Get Way Better at Accepting Feedback, with Sheila Heen (episode 143)
How to Process Your 360 Feedback, with Tom Henschel (episode 341)
Your Leadership Motive, with Patrick Lencioni (episode 505)
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