Tips to Avoid Obnoxiously Aggressive Praise
If you think you've given praise that was Obnoxiously Aggressive, check out these tips for moving towards Radical Candor!
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Gauge Your Feedback to Understand How it's Landing for Others
We want to help you create a culture of great feedback. In order to do that, we think you need to give feedback, get feedback, encourage feedback and gauge your feedback.
Meat Loaf's Radical Candor
Need your weekly dose of Radical Candor? Meat Loaf will sing it to you.
Video Tip: Giving Humble Feedback
One of our recommendations for giving Radically Candid praise is Be Humble. But how can you be humble when saying that something is good? Aren't you then also saying that you're the one who decides what is good and what isn't? That sounds somewhat...
Video Tip: Revisiting Non-Specific Praise
Kim and Russ recently shared some advice about making your praise helpful by being specific about what was good and why. They talked about how providing details can help people understand what to do more of, and how it also helps your sincerity show...
Tips for Radically Candid Praise
The purpose of praise is to help people know what to do more of. Check out these tips for offering Radical Candor:
Video Tip: Be Humble and Don't Personalize
We've got a quick video tip from the Betterworks Goal Summit 2016 talk that Kim did a couple months ago. She tells about a friend of hers whose use of two words put his criticism in the Obnoxious Aggression quadrant and earned him a reputation as a...
Criticism & Manipulative Insincerity
When you don’t Care Personally or Challenge Directly, criticism is Manipulatively Insincere.
'Solid' Praise Isn't Good Enough
‘Solid’ tends to be a neutral to slightly positive word. The times I’ve found it to be an effusive praise word, it’s been accompanied by a bunch of non-verbals: excited eyes, voice inflection, physical histrionics. You can hear someone saying it,...
Huey Lewis on Soliciting Radical Candor
A number of people have written in asking for advice on reacting to and soliciting feedback from their boss. The short answer is, try to make it easy for them to say what they're really thinking.