The document outlines effective feedback skills for managers to motivate employees and achieve organizational goals. It emphasizes the importance of being specific, immediate, tough yet kind, positive, and timely when giving feedback, and also highlights the need for regularity, recognition, and understanding the organizational context. Additionally, it discusses creating a feedback culture that promotes safety and encourages employee-generated solutions, ultimately aiming for continuous improvement and development.

1. Effective Feedback Skills
Objectives
Achieving organizational goals
Acquiring skills for creating the action plan for the organization
Motivating the employees
Effective feedback skills are used by managers when delivering
one to one performance reviews to employees in an
organization. Giving feedback acts as an effective tool for
motivation and a prove that managers to care about their
employees. Through effective feedback, managers encourage
positive team interaction thus promoting both achievements and
improvements. There is usually positive reinforcements which
come in different forms of performance evaluation.
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Been Specific
Been specific is an aspect embraced by every manager when
giving effective feedback to the employees. This enables the
employees to respond in a positive way which motivates them

2. towards the tasks they should accomplish. The managers are
able to specify every ambitions and goals needed to be
accomplished by the employees in the organization.
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Been Immediate
Been immediate involves giving productive feedback on
frequent basis. Through that way, performance reviews become
another collegial discussion. Information and employees’
reviews should always be given immediately to them so that
they can be able to utilize their time in other organizational
activities. The manager should be effective in giving effective
information to every employee.
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Been Tough but not Mean
Been tough but not mean enables the managers to regulate their
employees through resisting what is not right to their actions.
Toughness enables managers to ensure that the employees are at
their different places of work hence there are no different

3. perspectives towards their work. The actions of been tough does
not encourage the employees to do what ijs imperfect thus there
is effective feedback skills.
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Been Positive
Been positive enables the managers to give as much positive
and productive feedback even though it is negative. Positive
feedback tends to stimulate the reward centers in the brain by
leaving the employees open into taking new positive directions
for the organization. Managers embrace positive feedback
because it does not indicate adjustments to be made thus
avoiding negative feedback when giving feedback.
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Creating Safety
Creating safety when giving feedback to the employees is
important because they are able to say virtually anything to
each other thus been able to suggest the civility and safety into
the manager’s feedback approach. For the feedback to safe and

4. productive, the manager has to focus on making the employees
feel better in front of the others.
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Been Timely
Been timely is important to the managers because they are able
to address their issues since it is not about surprising the
employees. It is usually much easier to give feedback to the
employees when it is adequately prepared in the most
appropriate time. Been timely enable the manager to give the
exact information by ensuring that he or she sticks to the facts.
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By Providing Specific Suggestions
By providing specific suggestions thus making sure that the
managers know what needs to be done in order to improve the
situations in the organization. When giving feedback to the
employees it enables them to show that they care and want to
help the person grow and develop well especially in their
working skills. Productive and effective feedback enables

5. managers and employees to set goals and make plans to monitor
and evaluate their progress.
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By Following Up
By following up the necessary feedback so as to submit it to the
employees by improving their performance. It enables the
managers to measure if what is happening is right and the
adjustments as the organization makes its progress. Through the
provision of effective feedback, managers are able to document
their conversations and discuss what is working and what needs
to be modified.
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Making Regular Feedback
Making the feedback regular is important to the managers since
it requires constant attention. This enables the employees to
know that simple feedback is given more often than it is.
Regular feedback shows the timing of formal feedback thus
enabling the employees to depend on such situations.

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Been Measurable
Been measurable is an important aspect since it enables the
managers to give a limit of their feedback. It involves
regulating the way feedback is conveyed to the employees. This
ensures that feedback is given in the most appropriate manner
thus embracing accuracy to every individual. It enables
employees to measure and realize their required goals.
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By Recognition
Recognition is also an important aspect used mostly by
managers in order to avoid the process of underestimating the
power of recognition. The process of recognition ensures the
employees that what they are doing is right. The managers are
able to tell the employees how good they feel about what they
did right and how it helps the organization and other employees.
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7. By Understanding
Understanding the organizational situation is an important
aspect which involves developing action plans necessary for the
resolving different situations in the organization. The managers
develop feedback which is necessary for providing information
needed in ensuring that each and every factors of the
organization are well managed by the employees.
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Encouraging Generated
Solution
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8. Encouraging employee generated solutions helps in determining
new solutions to any organizational behavior changes a manager
would like to have through the employees. This enables the
manager to have alternative approaches in order to solve the
problems displayed by the employees. It ensures that there is
employee creativity to develop new ways of solving their
problems.
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Modelling Behavior
Modeling the behavior a manager would like to see is important
because it enhances aspirations and seeks constructive
performance feedback to everyone. Employees see that the
manager is searching for important information which addresses
them for professional growth. Through modeling, employees
can view the feedback at a bigger perspective thus making it
less vulnerable.

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Creation of Culture
Creation of culture enables the employees to feel comfortable
by giving and receiving performance feedback required in the
commitment and perseverance. Managers deliver their
performance feedback well as an expression of organizational
values like mutual respect and excellence. This results into
dialogues which serve to reinforce the strengths and values of
the workplace culture.
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