Kindly Review: The Secret to Giving and Receiving Feedback to Make Your Ideas Great

  • 2h 43m
  • Dawn Crawford
  • John Wiley & Sons (US)
  • 2023

Unlock the creative and innovative potential of your team members with a new approach to feedback and review

In Kindly Review: The Secret to Giving and Receiving Feedback to Make Your Ideas Great is a transformative new approach to taking the sting out of the review process and unlocking the innovative and creative power of your teams. You’ll learn to regain control over your work processes, from project start to completion, and get products to the finish line quickly and efficiently.

The author identifies eight “classic” styles of giving feedback and contrasts them with the effective Kind Review process, a system for creating respectful, collaborative, and innovative working environments. You’ll find:

  • Strategies for gathering, receiving, and giving feedback respectfully, productively, and kindly
  • The reasons why receiving feedback can be so painful in the first place, and ways to reduce the emotional impact of critical and negative responses
  • A comprehensive model for respectful workplace collaboration with team review and feedback at its foundation

A can’t-miss roadmap to unlocking freedom, creativity, and innovation amongst your team members, Kindly Review belongs on the bookshelves of leader at for-profit firms, nonprofit agencies, and government departments looking for new ways to approach team leadership.

About the Author

Dawn Crawford is the founder and leader of BC/DC Ideas, a creative agency that has worked with over 100 nonprofit organizations, including the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association, to build better communications strategies and tactics. She is the creator of the Kind Review process, which has been used to build 1,000s of products over the last twelve years.

In this Book

  • Chapter 1: Why Feedback Hurts
  • Chapter 2: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Review
  • Chapter 3: Receiving Feedback: Tough Skin, Tough Love, or Tough
  • Chapter 4: Giving Feedback
  • Chapter 5: Taste Is an Unconscious Bias
  • Chapter 6: Feedback Styles
  • Chapter 7: Kind Collaborator
  • Chapter 8: Perfect Pass-Through
  • Chapter 9: Vague Vocalist
  • Chapter 10: Land Mine
  • Chapter 11: Silent but Deadly
  • Chapter 12: DIYer
  • Chapter 13: One and Doner
  • Chapter 14: Rage Reviewer
  • Chapter 15: When Style Meets Process
  • Chapter 16: The IdeaStorm: Kickoff to Success
  • Chapter 17: Project Planning
  • Chapter 18: Creating Your Satisfaction
  • Chapter 19: Mastering the Feedback Process
  • Chapter 20: Preparing Others to Give Feedback
  • Chapter 21: Gather Feedback on Your Ideas
  • Chapter 22: Find Strength in Collaboration
  • Chapter 23: Making Kind Review Work for You
  • Chapter 24: The Dreaded Redo
  • Chapter 25: Surviving Group Review
  • Chapter 26: Ready for Completion
  • Chapter 27: Failure to Communicate
  • Chapter 28: Perfection Is Impossible, but Collaboration Is Magic
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