Kindly Review

2The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Review

Here's a revolutionary thought: You can control the feedback you receive on your ideas. Receiving feedback is not open season on your ideas. Instead, you have the opportunity to control the level of input and how you feel about that feedback.

The key is pairing an understanding of the feedback styles in your team with an established review process. By identifying your team's feedback styles and carrying out a review process, you can guide any idea or project to completion.

The perfect recipe for Kind Review features three things:

1. Positive feedback: The energy people give to feedback can be helpful and motivating, or it can be hurtful and demotivating. This transfer of energy in the review process is powerful. It can either help a team be great or lead a team to burnout.
2. Streamlined review: With a collaborative review process, teams can move ideas to great with speed and kindness. It's the full effort of a team to get ideas to completion.
3. Perfection is impossible: Humans are not machines. The process of creation is messy. Let the team make a product great together.

We're trying to build more helpful feedback and reduce unhelpful feedback. Unhelpful feedback is destructive feedback. It rots the souls of creatives. It eats at great ideas. Destructive feedback leads to higher employee turnover and less effective products, guaranteed. ...