Video Tip: How Often Should I Give Feedback?
How often should you be giving people feedback? Speaking a few years ago at Slack, I got a question about feedback frequency — how much is too much or not enough?
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35 Radical Candor Book Club Discussion Questions
A great way to practice the principles of Radical Candor is by starting a virtual book club. We’ve put together this list of Radical Candor book club questions to get you started with the discussions for each chapter.
6 Tips for Navigating a Work Martyr Culture
It’s frustrating to work with somebody who expects to be rewarded for being more miserable than you are, who’s constantly trying to engage in a contest about who can work longer hours, someone who has masochism confused with commitment. These people...
How Delivering Bad News Early Strengthens Your Relationships at Work
Telling a person at the last minute that you can’t fulfill a commitment does real damage to your relationship. Of course, sh*t happens. Sometimes you can’t keep your commitments for reasons you could never have predicted. When that happens, as it...
Video Tip: Embrace the Discomfort When Asking for Radical Candor
We talk a lot about how to give feedback, how to be helpful, humble, immediate, how to balance praise and criticism, etc. But as hard as it is to try to be good at giving feedback, it can be even harder to try to get the feedback you need. We can...
Effective Feedback Always Begins With Soliciting Feedback (AKA Listening) Before Giving It
Esther Bintliff recently interviewed me for the Financial Times about Radical Candor — feedback that is kind, clear, specific and sincere — and some folks have asked me what I think about Avraham Kluger’s research, which Bintliff also referenced in...
Research Confirms It — People Actually Do Want Feedback, But How You Give It Matters
While the thought of giving or getting feedback might conjure up dread, or as one friend said to me when I told her where I worked, "Hearing the word 'feedback' causes me to involuntarily clench my buttocks," most people do want feedback, especially...
Add These 10 Radically Relevant Books to Your 2022 Summer Reading List for Inspiration, Empowerment and Hope for the Future
Looking for some inspiring books to add to your 2022 summer reading list? We've curated a summer reading list of radically relevant books that will help you succeed at work, create a meaningful life, understand your big feelings, reframe your brain...
Want to Join a Radical Community to Help You Kick Ass at Work? Register for Kim Scott's 'Leading With Radical Candor' Career Development Book Club
Join Kim Scott, author of Just Work and Radical Candor, in her new Career Development Book Club on Fable.
4 Ways To Avoid Personalizing Feedback
There is a big difference between Caring Personally and giving praise or criticism about somebody's personality. The final tip in our HIP approach to feedback is that Radically Candid praise and criticism is not about personality. It’s about the...