How to Give Feedback to Subordinates

Creating or seizing an opportunity to give feedback to an employee is your first task. Next, you have to make your feedback effective. Compassionate and honest feedback from you will help your subordinates develop goals, make and reinforce positive changes, raise their self-confidence, and feel motivated to take action.

Describe the situation in which you observed your subordinate, the behavior you observed, and the impact of that behavior on you and others who were present.

Be Specific

To increase the quality and effectiveness of the feedback you give, we recommend using the three-step process that we teach and practice at CCL: the situation-behavior-impact model. SBI is a simple feedback structure that ...

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