Tag: feedback

Day 8 of F.O.O.D. – Using the TEAPOT to help give better feedback

It’s day 8 of my Advent Calendar and today I’m going to be sharing my TEAPOT technique as a way of being able to provide better feedback. I meet so many people who find it hard to give feedback because they’re too worried how the other person is going to react.  When you use my…
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Take it in the way it’s intended!

Have you ever fallen in love with a project and become sooooo close to it that you don’t see some glaring opportunities for improvement?  Others can see it but you can’t.  You’ve locked into the project so much that you’ve locked out everything else and it’s created a kind of blind-spot for you! Recently I’ve…
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Do people trust you?

Have you ever found yourself sugar coating some news or perhaps not even saying it at all because you’ve been afraid of the consequences of sharing?  I know I have.  All those thoughts of ‘how will the other person react?’, ‘how will it impact me?’, ‘will they still value/love me for who I am?’ and…
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F is for Fear Culture

This month we are looking at F is for Fear Culture and I thought we’d also touch on Feedback too – as I don’t think one can exist whilst the other is present.  I also felt that it follows on nicely from my last newsletter as a fear culture in an organisation is often caused…
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E is for Elephant in the Room

Having experienced a number of metaphorical elephants in the room in my lifetime, I thought this was a well known expression, but when discussing the subject with a friend over the weekend, I could see from the look on her face that she didn’t know what I was talking about! So if this is the…
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