How to Improve, Not Kill the Annual Performance Review
Q4 will be over before you know it, and you know what that means for so many companies: it’s performance review time!
Getting Feedback (6)
Reward the Candor
One of the tips we shared in our post about how to get more feedback is to reward feedback to get more of it. If you want to get others to open up and tell you what they think, you have to show them that you appreciate it. It’s a risk for them to...
How to Have Effective 1-on-1 Meetings With Your Direct Reports
There are a lot of ways to think about holding effective 1-on-1 meetings with the people on your teams. New leaders often hem and haw over how to get this just right.
The Financial Risks of Ignoring Feedback
Feedback is a critical, integral skill for success and growth in the workplace, not only for managers but for everyone. It’s very hard to give and receive feedback, and you may hate doing it. However, ignoring feedback (giving and getting it) can...
Video: Sam Adams and the FU Rule
When you’re the boss, it’s really hard to get people to tell you what they really think -- to be Radically Candid with you. Showing that you want feedback and genuinely appreciate it when it’s given is key. The worst thing you can do is to criticize...
Hit Me With Your Best Shot
We've all been taught since we were kids, "If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all." But now in the workplace, we need to hear when things aren't going well. We need people to tell us how we can do better, to go against...
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...
'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.
3 Steps for Offering Radical Candor to Executives
DILEMMA: Providing criticism to senior executives can be a daunting undertaking. How do you practice Radical Candor with executives, especially if you know they haven’t been receptive to criticism in the past?