Implementing A Stronger Feedback Culture

Feedback is an essential part of evaluating your performance. Colleagues are able to identify strengths of your work and also improvements on weaknesses. Feedback helps you to identify areas for improvement (such as skills to develop, learning resources, behaviour management strategies etc.). In addition it can help you become more aware of your own practice and identify problems before they arise to encourage change within future experience. By encouraging feedback an honest appraisal helps you to develop professionally. By asking for specific examples provides clarity for future development. Feedback can be gathered from colleagues as said during TA School drop ins (see appendix) and management in individual meetings and group discussions,

Receiving feedback gives us an opportunity to change and modify our behaviour, in order to become more effective at skills.

Feedback is perceived as more valid and objective, leading to acceptance of results and actions required (Michael Armstrong 2009:646).This implies

If the feedback is questionable then it becomes useless because it is not trusted. Positive and negative feedback will be more readily accepted if it is kept even, if it is more of one then it may not be received well by the learner for reasons that become obvious within the learner’s behavior or work.

During our work we might think we have done a good job, especially if we have been working in a workplace for a long time. We might carry on our practice without changing anything. Feedback from those people who are working with us can give us another perspective. We should listen to what they think and consider their opinions.

The purpose of feedback is to let me know what I am doing is correct or indeed incorrect as the case may be sometimes. It’s as useful to know you are doing things well and in the fashion expected as well as the areas that require amendment or improvement.

It is important to be objective when receiving feedback to possibly consider room for improvement. Sometimes you don’t see the errors or mistakes you missed; by receiving feedback you might be able to catch the errors or mistakes because the person that gave you the feedback caught. The one thing you need to consider is that all feedback may not positive. You need to keep an open mind and take into consideration that persons thought.

Constructive feedback is just as important as it helps identify weak points whether it occurs on an individual level or at the level of a team. Guidance through mentoring and training sessions can be a useful tool to improve performance.

Giving feedback to someone is like being supportive that includes positive and negative observations. However, it needs to be given in a concerned manner. When someone gives me feedback, I have the ability to do more research. As for receiving feedback, it gives he or she the opportunity to change and become more effective. Feedback helps people to become more aware of what is does, and how it needs to be done.

Feedback is also crucial. When viewed and taken serious, corrective action based on dialogue from others can prove to be very successful and remove a sense of

Different feedback strategys have been used as efficent tools in the promotion of progress and improvement in the professional world (Baker, A. Perrault D. Alain, R., 2013). De Janasz et al. (2014) explains some positive outcomes that result from shariying, asking and getting feedback from others in within a workplace; such as improving and reforcing employee relationships, enforcing a gainnful comunication, promoting teamwork, and increasing the performance of employees. Specificly De Janasz et al. (2014) develops the idea that providing constructive feedback, sustained by strong interpersonal communication skills, enables the individual recognize their strengths and wiknesses in a clear and non risky way, in order to look for the most accurate plan to improve, and obtain significant and necessary behavioral changes. Everyday Feedback as part of an organization strategy help employees feel confident about their possition and process inside the company, and promotes a clear path to achieve personal and organizational goals (Baker, A. Perrault D. Alain, R. (2013); citado en Levy and williams,

Therefore, feedback is designed to provide useful information to participants to help develop and improve them as leaders. It should not be used to hurt participants or make them feel bad; however, feedback is needed for improvements and coaching in order to move them to the next level. According to Hughes, Ginnett, & Curphy (2015) “The skill of giving constructive feedback, however, inherently involves actively giving feedback to some else. Getting helpful feedback is essential to a subordinate’s performance and development. Without feedback, a subordinate will not be able to tell whether she’s doing a good job or whether her abrasiveness is turning people off and hurting her chances for promotion (p.444).”

In an article from the U.S. Office of Personnel Management [OPM] (n.d.) it stated that “without feedback, you 're walking blind, at best, you 'll accidentally reach your goal, and at worst, you will wander aimlessly through the dark, never reaching your destination.” Feedback is a critical element in a managers “toolbox” when evaluating employees. It gives an employee a view of how good or bad their previous performance was and what or if they need to improve in their performance. It also reduces

5) Feedback refers to the degree to which a task permits workers to obtain evaluation about their work. Workers enjoy hearing when clients are really pleased with the quality of their work and regular information of this type leads to more motivated employees. High feedback: A salesperson delivered a car to his customer after he tests it to confirm if it operates as it should be. Low feedback: An electronics factory worker who assembles a DVD player and then sends it to a quality control inspector who tests it for accurate operation and makes required alteration.

Accurate external feedback is essential to facilitate improvement in performance (Sargeant at al 2010). To achieve the best results not only feedback needs to be provided in a right way but also a person accepting the feedback needs to be receptive to it. Although I always maintained professional while receiving feedback and often actively sought feedback myself, I found challenging at a times to handle negative feedback.