MIT Sloan Management Review Article on The Simple Way to Make Giving Feedback Easier

Giving constructive feedback is essential for being an effective manager and teammate, but delivering it can be a challenge. Perhaps you need to tell someone they tend to ramble in meetings and their colleagues have started tuning them out, or that an offhanded comment they made may have been offensive to others in the group.

Big or small, when the constructive feedback you have to offer to someone is negative, it can be tempting to keep it to yourself. You might not want to hurt their feelings, or you may work in an organization where everyone says only “nice” things, making it hard to say anything but.

About the Author

Therese Huston, Ph.D., (@theresehuston) is the author of the new book Let’s Talk: Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower (Portfolio, 2021). Huston was the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University. She now gives talks and consults on how to give and solicit better feedback at work.

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