From the course: Asking for Feedback as an Employee
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What to ask in a feedback conversation
From the course: Asking for Feedback as an Employee
What to ask in a feedback conversation
- Our natural instinct when someone says, how am I doing is to say good job but that doesn't help us get meaningful actionable feedback. So if you want to really know how to improve, how to take your game to the next level, how to continually be better at what you do you've got to ask a different question. One of the most important pieces about the feedback strategy is knowing how to ask the right questions. So ditch the, how am I doing or how do you think that went and replace it with a more specific set of questions. For example, Jody, I'd love your thoughts on how I'm doing engaging our stakeholders or I'd really like to know how I'm doing keeping the project on time and under budget. Give me something as your manager that I can react to. If you go back to your college days and you think about taking an open book essay test or a multiple choice quiz, most of us choose that quiz. It's always easier to react to something…
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