3 Questions to Get Feedback You Need

- Harvard Business Review Blog Article by Thomas J. Delong

Excerpt from the Article:

No leader improves without feedback. But getting people to be honest about your performance isn't always easy. Give your team a way to supply you with the candid information you need to change by asking them these three questions:

• What should I stop doing? Ask which behaviors stand in your way of success.
• What should I keep doing? Inquire about what you do right, and should continue to do.
• What should I start doing? Once you've stopped unproductive behaviors, you'll have more time and energy for new behaviors.

The author calls this feedback mechanism "SKS", a process whereby we would ask others what we should stop (S), keep (K), and start (S) doing.

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Sugata Mitra: The Child-Driven Education

Shared by Dr. Vandna Dharmar. Thank You!

Education Scientist, Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education - The best teachers and schools don't exist where they are needed the most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching. 

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The Right Way to Respond to Failure

It's been over two years that I've updated my blog on a motivating management-related article but this HBR blog article prompted me to get started with my blogging efforts again.

Here's the HBR excerpt of the blog-article by Peter Bregman on "The Right Way to Respond to Failure".

When people fail at work, your instinct may be to go into problem-solving mode. You search out reasons for the failure, try to figure out how to avoid it in the future, and draw out the lessons to be learned. But when people who have failed are in the depths of despair, they need empathy more than your rationalizations and encouragements about the future.

A concerned response is not only compassionate but productive. Empathy communicates trust, and people perform best when they feel trusted. Next time one of your people falls short, listen. Don't interrupt, don't offer advice, don't say that it will be all right. Just reflect back what you hear them say. There will be time to solve the problem later.

Click here to read the complete article. I'm sure there's something to learn as a manager, parent, friend or as any other relationship.