by Ross Blake | May 15, 2019 | Communication, Performance Management
“I wish my manager would ask me for my feedback sometimes,” Monique, a seminar participant, told me at the conclusion of a two day training program in Baltimore about how to give employees performance feedback. She had several ideas that would improve how...
by Ross Blake | Feb 27, 2019 | Communication, Performance Management
The purpose of giving employees performance feedback is a positive and beneficial one, done for all of the right reasons. Yet, giving-and receiving—feedback is one of the most difficult, if not the most difficult, workplace conversation managers and employees...
by Ross Blake | Sep 25, 2018 | Communication, Conflict Resolution
How do I give my boss feedback?” This is one of the questions I get most often from managers and other training program participants after they’ve learned a skill to give their employees feedback. “And how can I do this safely?” they add,...
by Ross Blake | Apr 17, 2018 | Communication, Team Building
How many times have you, and others in your organization, heard proposed ideas recommendations, or strategies that had flaws or other potential problems, but you didn’t know what to say, or how to say it? And you didn’t want to offend the person who...
by Ross Blake | Jan 10, 2018 | Communication, Management Development
After you read the vision statements below, I’ll ask how they impacted you, and share their impact on several hundred participants in leadership development programs: “If there are poor on the moon, we will go there, too.” -Mother Teresa...
