Feedback Strategies - How to give feedback.

Giving and receiving feedback is a powerful tool, whether it be in school, college or at the workplace. It informs us about our performance and behavior with our work and team. Without feedback, it is easy to get stuck in a state of frustration and uncertainty. It is commonly known that feedback can be positive or negative, but what impact does this have on us?
by Anya Kamenetez.

In this article Anya Kamenetez distinguishes the difference between praise and feedback, and the importance of both but how they're not the same.

Kamenetez says that giving praise is similar to giving compliments or approval on someones work, saying things such as "you must have worked really hard on this painting" or "you must be a genius!". This can be very affective towards someones self confidence and self worth. However, giving praise too often can have a negative affect resulting in feeling less compelled to take on new challenges.

The difference of praising someone to giving good feedback is praise is a one-way dialogue, feedback is used to correct or improve performance, which usually leads to an action plan or follow up of some description



Feedback is always a good way of knowing what others think of your work, but sometimes people will give bad feedback. Receiving bad or negative feedback can be a helpful way to learn from mistakes, but sometimes it can come across as just plain rudeness or spitefulness rather than a form of constructive criticism. In the article "How to Give Back Feedback Without Sounding Like a Jerk", Adam Grant explains how to give back feedback that isn't necessarily positive, but in a way that won't hurt the individuals feelings.

Grant demonstrates a very interesting way of proposing negative feedback to someone by saying -
"I'm giving you these comments because I have very high expectations and I know that you can reach them"
It's not a way of lying, its explaining how the work wasn't of quality but you believe that they can do better. By doing this it is more understandable when you receive the negative feedback, and thus don't sound like a jerk when giving it.

Another suggested step is to "take yourself off a pedestal", basically referring to how when you're giving negative feedback to someone it makes them feel inferior and small. You can make them feel more comfortable by just explaining how you're not perfect either.

Lastly, the message I feel Grant is trying to get across is how instead of just telling someone how bad they're doing, instead turn it into constructive criticism, and also try to highlight the good parts of their work too in attempt to soften the blow depending on how bad the feedback is.

Overall we're all humans and should be considerate of each others feelings. There's nice ways to say mean things.


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