5 golden rules to give feedback really useful for your team

Lessons learned as a CEO of a $60M company

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Feedback is the only way to grow excellent organizations.

As a CEO of a $60M company, in the last 5 years, I gave feedback to over 300 people. People are cold about feedback. They don’t know if is it worth it to listen to feedback from a peer or the manager.

What I learned is that 98% of feedback is useless.

But you can improve your feedback.

Whether you are a manager or not, learning to give effective feedback is the best way to become a beloved colleague. It is a powerful credibility introduction. People will trust your words and feel understood.

Here are the 5 golden rules I learned about how to give effective feedback:

1. Give only first-hand feedback
2. Give feedback related to people’s goals
3. Don’t create clone people
4. Give timely feedback
5. Relate the actions to the effect

#1 Give only first-hand feedback

NEVER bring word-of-mouth into feedback.

You will immediately lose people’s trust.