How Leaders Can Ask for the Feedback No One Wants to Give Them

Ah, the F word.

Feedback, of course.

Harvard Business Review and VitalSmarts have published results from a recent online study on employee and manager feedback: Eighty percent of the 1,335 respondents said their boss has a significant weakness that everyone knows and discusses covertly with each other, but not directly with their manager.

Some of this may very well be harmless griping, or even a kind of teambuilding for your staff, but what if you’re missing something significant?

If there’s something about your boss that frustrates you (and everyone around you), here’s how you can broach the subject in a thoughtful, productive way — and what managers can do to encourage their employees to open up.

Continue reading the article from the Harvard Business Review here.

What does feedback look like at your center?