
Feedback: some notes on how to engender
continual, two-way feedback with your team
If you’re not used to asking your staff for honest feedback on how
you come across to them and how you lead, it can be difficult to get
started. Of course, 360-degree appraisals have been fashionable in
many corporate circles, but not in all organizations, and there have
been question marks about how reliable the information is from such
exercises in organizations where trust isn’t very high. It has been
documented that requesting such comprehensive, detailed feedback
on managers can be counterproductive in organizations not
accustomed to performance reviews, or where staff ...