Feedback Strategies

The first article I found useful was the article titled "Try Feedforward Instead of Feedback." This article discusses how traditional feedback usually focuses on deeds that were done in the past. This tends to make feedback limited in its scope and applications. This article suggests trying to feedforward and provide tips that are helpful and actionable for the future. This relies upon providing suggestions that will help improve future performance rather than just pointing out mistakes from the past. This helps people to achieve future goals. It also prevents people from taking feedback so personally. The second article I read was "How to Give Someone Feedback Without Sounding Like a Jerk." This was useful because eI find it difficult to give good feedback without thinking that I am sounding mean. The most important strategies I found in this article were to be clear and transparent when giving feedback and to take yourself off a pedestal. If your frame your feedback in such a way that shows you truly care about their performance and want them to improve, then you will end up giving much better feedback. These are all strategies that I want to work on when giving feedback this semester. I want to be specific and actionable in the feedback that I give.

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