If you hire and work with employees on a regular basis, you’ll need to provide them with feedback. Feedback, whether positive or negative, informs employees about their performance and gives them an ...

Giving feedback to your boss can be intimidating, but, with these five strategies in your hip pocket, you can get your point across with more ease. Giving feedback to your boss--a senior executive, ...

Feedback has the power to motivate and improve performance, but it often backfires. Instead of sparking growth, it can trigger defensiveness or lead to silence. Some people soften their words so much ...

Though 37 percent of managers surveyed by leadership consulting firm Zenger/Folkman say they do not give positive reinforcement, surveys of employees show this kind of feedback is vital to ...

A smart manager will see your feedback as a gift, because most never get feedback on their job performance. People get defensive quickly if they feel they are being criticized. So a good approach can ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. When effectively administered, feedback is a powerful way to build knowledge and skills, increase skills, ...

In our research on what makes work meaningful, one of the most powerful, but underused, leadership practices was the simple act of saying “thank you” (Adams & Myles, 2025). Meaningful work isn’t ...

When Emerie Lukas was hired to develop and teach a STEM Foundations course to middle school students at the Dayton Regional STEM School, she was starting from scratch. The stated goal of the course ...

We all love our pets, but we sometimes forget to reward them promptly for the positive behaviors we're encouraging. Take dogs, for instance. Studies show the longer we wait to reward our pups for a ...

I have some bad news. If you want to be a good manager, or even team member for that matter, you’ll need to get comfortable giving negative feedback. It’s not going to be high-fives and roses all the ...