Feedback, the basics

01 Feb 2025

Leading without giving feedback kills your team’s culture. No one knows where they stand and fear spreads through your team.

Learning to give useful feedback is a key skill for transitioning into a leadership role. Investing in building the habit helps you become a mentor and leader for your team, helping them grow beyond their current role into the people you need them to be as your business scales.

Even better, learning to give feedback doesn’t take months of practice or studying. You can just just start doing it, for free, right now by taking these two steps.

First: Notice specific things that people on your team do.

Second: Tell them that you noticed the specific thing they did.

Easy, right?

Okay, sorry, there’s a little more to read. Those are the two steps, but we have to talk a little more about step two with a few examples.

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