1) Feedback is essential for learning but can also be stressful. To create safety when giving feedback, criticize with skill and express more appreciation. The simplest feedback model is to disclose how a person's behavior made you feel without attacking their intentions.
2) There are increasing levels of difficulty and risk when communicating feelings. Providing feedback about how someone makes you feel personally is the hardest but most powerful for learning. Creating psychological safety, trust, and intimacy can help make feedback less threatening.
3) To minimize the risk of social threat when giving feedback, be mindful of the other person's status, minimize uncertainty, maximize their autonomy, build the relationship, and ensure fairness. Receiving feedback effectively requires cultivating awareness of
4. The headline
Feedback = essential for learning
But also stressful
So create safety
By criticizing with skill
& expressing more appreciation
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18. Hierarchy of needs
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Psychological safety, trust & intimacy
Experiments, risk-taking &
vulnerability
Learning, self-
awareness & change
In groups & relationships…
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SCARF model
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David Rock
What social situations
trigger a threat
response?
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SCARF model
David Rock
What social situations trigger a threat response?
How can we minimize the risk of social threat?
How can we create safety?
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Use the model
When giving feedback…
Be mindful of status
Minimize uncertainty
Maximize autonomy
Build the relationship*
Play fair*
34. Use the model
When getting feedback…
Cultivate in-the-moment awareness
Recognize our threat response
Manage our emotions
Slow things down
48. Carol Dweck
How do we feel about our abilities?
How do we feel about our mistakes?
Mindset
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49. Talent & intelligence
are inherent traits
Mistakes are failures or
character flaws
Negative emotional
response to mistakes
Talent & intelligence
can be developed
Mistakes are learning
opportunities
Pay close attention to
mistakes & learn
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Mindset
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52. Soft start
Begin with positive intent
(But don’t bullshit)
Emphasize mutual goals
Be mindful of your stress
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53. To sum up
Build safety, trust & intimacy
Use the models
Minimize social threat
Less stressful feedback
More learning
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56. Building a Feedback-Rich Culture
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