Managers often use performance reviews to mold and shape employee behaviors and results. They trust that formally telling high performers what they’re doing wrong one to two times a year will lead to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Curiosity expert improving engagement, innovation, and productivity. Ever had feedback backfire, leaving you feeling like the bad ...

Feedback is a necessary part of personal and professional growth. We need feedback to understand how we are performing in our roles and where we are still developing. Understanding what we are doing ...

All of us have struggled at times with how to give feedback that will motivate our direct reports, lift their performance, and reinforce the organization’s culture. Why doesn’t feedback always work ...

Giving performance feedback is a part of every people leader’s job. And yet, in my work with these leaders and teams, I’ve found that they often have negative mental models of what a feedback ...

On the latest episode of ‘Your Next Move,’ Greenhouse’s Daniel Chait and Wagmo’s Christie Horvath discuss performance management. A company is nothing without the people who keep it running—but how ...

People get defensive quickly if they feel they are being criticized. So a good approach can be to present the feedback as an issue the two of you can work together to solve. (That way the change might ...

One approach to dealing with performance or behavior problems is through communication. Specifically, giving and receiving direct feedback. Feedback gives each party an opportunity to tell their side, ...

When it comes to giving negative feedback at work, the so-called "compliment sandwich"—praise, criticism, praise—may no longer be effective, according to ongoing research from the Ivey Business School ...

Kip Holderness has received funding in the past from the Institute of Management Accountants and the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. Kari Olsen received funding from the Institute of ...