How to Give the Right Kind of Leadership Feedback
September 4, 2025
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Let me state a painful, yet obvious, truth for you… Great feedback is a gift. However, if constructive feedback is
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Let me state a painful, yet obvious, truth for you… Great feedback is a gift. However, if constructive feedback is
Effective management balances oversight with accountability while avoiding micromanagement. Micromanagement stifles employee autonomy and engagement, leading to negative outcomes. Conversely, accountability fosters collaboration and improves performance. Leaders should establish clear standards, invest in coaching, transfer ownership, and provide timely feedback to enhance team dynamics and individual responsibility.
When holding a managerial title, it’s common to prioritize management-focused actions over leadership-focused ones. However, effective coaching can improve team performance significantly. Developing a coaching mindset, clarifying goals, providing consistent support, and personalized coaching are key tactics. Coached employees are more engaged and achieve higher performance targets.
More managers are seeing themselves as a coach than ever before. But it’s no secret that it’s easier to give
Feedback is sharing information about a person’s performance which is used as a basis for improvement. Delivering disapproval or expressing the need for someone else to change is no easy task.
Do you ever feel like a team member is underperforming? Welcome to the leadership club. It’s likely your team member
Unfortunately, the hard decisions around talent management are just part of the territory of leadership. Anyone involved in the talent management life cycle knows the three essential components; hiring, retaining and firing.
When a person holds a position of power and authority without clear, candid information about how their actions or behaviors affect their teams, it’s a recipe for disaster.
If you are anything like me, you have made your fair share of resolutions over the years only to make excuses for yourself when you give up on them. Turns out you aren’t alone. The latest research shows 80% of New Year’s Resolutions fail by the second week of February.
As lovely as it would be to have a smooth, easy path to success as a leader, failure is an inevitable part of the process. The stories of some of the great leaders of all time are filled with more failures than success. Take Abraham Lincoln, for example; he was defeated or rejected from public office seven times before ever being elected as the President of the United States at age 51. A combination of his determination and the ability to learn from earlier failures was key to his eventual success as a leader.