Feedback aims to maximize performance by providing self-knowledge and self-development through impressions given to others. It can help people and groups grow better depending on formality and group size, and gives direction by specifying modifiable behaviors, impact, and outcomes to change without judgment and by focusing on behaviors. Effective feedback is objective, encourages positives, guides negatives, uses examples, and is planned, asked for, and given respectfully at the right time and place to benefit both parties.
Feedback aims to maximize performance by providing self-knowledge and self-development through impressions given to others. It can help people and groups grow better depending on formality and group size, and gives direction by specifying modifiable behaviors, impact, and outcomes to change without judgment and by focusing on behaviors. Effective feedback is objective, encourages positives, guides negatives, uses examples, and is planned, asked for, and given respectfully at the right time and place to benefit both parties.