You Don’t Say: The importance of earnest feedback

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I’ve now realized for the first time in my life the vital importance of being earnest.

Oscar Wilde

When’s the last time you gave feedback?

• Tweets
• Mentor relationship

Three types of feedback

• Appreciation
  • Keep it appropriate and on topic
• Coaching
  • Grow and Change
  • How work can be improved
• Evaluation
  • Should not be emotional
  • Should have value. Think of letter grades / pass and fail
  • Be objective without emotion

What job are you trying to do?

• Give relevant feedback to the purpose
• Keep feedback about the project
  • Keep it productive

Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Alegernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

Oscar Wilde

• When you are respectful and kind people are less likely to block you
• The strongest control we have is how we receive feedback

It is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn’t. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn’t read.

Oscar Wilde

• Poop Sandwich
  • buffer negative feedback with positive feedback — meh.
  • Instead just be constructive and greatfull

READ: The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde