An Art to Learn: How to Provide Constructive Feedback

One of the most significant things a team leader can do to reinforce and support the team members is to provide feedback and a good employee always need to be eager to know how good they are performing and looks for the scope of improvement.
So, a leader must be a master of providing constructive feedback. It becomes more essential when an employee is undergoing with some issues, getting down their morale and turning negative.
The motive of constructive feedback is to muster the positive behaviour of the employees that can boost their performance.
So this article will provide you:
• What is the constructive feedback
• Mannerism, how you can approach your employees with feedback.
• You will understand the effective ways to deliver feedback,
• its features and benefit,
• why it is so essential for a team leader
• Some wrong practice of feedback.

Common Way of Providing Feedback:
There are three ways of providing feedback which usually a team leader follows. Either he will be solely critic toward the employees or praise them or he may go for constructive feedback.
Glib Positive- Some of the team leaders completely focus on the positive side of the employees believing that it will make the employees better, ignoring the negative part. It seems too glib to rely on. This way, the employees never realise their dark side and fail to perform executively.
Obsessed Negative- There are other kinds of leader who never believes, their employee could ever do something great and always busy in harsh criticism.
Constructive feedback – Constructive feedback is an issue based focused and specific discussing between leader and members. A good team leader always remains alert while delivering feedback. He blends dexterously criticism for wrongs and admiration for goodness. He helps his employees to perform better reducing the negativity.

Effective Way of Constructive Feedback-
Before the team leader approach the staff, he must note down some of the points on how to provide effective ways of constructive feedback.
• Deliver only what is important and specific. Make sure you don’t insert any some other incident in the conversation.
• Remain impersonal honest, no matter whether it is positive or negative feedback. Keep yourself free from any biased emotion.
• Don’t delay the feedback. Address it as soon as it comes up. Delay can entrench the negative into the habit and if it is an achievement, it will lose its sweetness.
• Never approach your employees with crude feedback, cite fact, examples and statics to reinforce them.
• Talk the negative side initially, then go for the bright side and at the suggest follows up to resolve the issue.
• Believe your employees as just a person and free our mind from gender prejudice.
• Never show your employees you know everything. Better give them space to come up with their idea.
• Avoid talking a lot at one time. It can delude its impact of feedback.

Benefits of Constructive feedback:
Honest and genuine feedback brings only positivity in the team members and creates a positive atmosphere in the office.
What a leader can do by providing constructive feedback:
Motivating employees he can reinforce the potential of the employees.
Solving the problem of employees, they can avert any drama or unwanted situation that employee is undergoing.
A leader can create leaders by inculcating positive traits and skills in the members.
Nurture the employees by showing strength and drawback.
A leader can increase employee engagement by making them realise their value in the organisation.

Prevalent Wrong Practice of Giving feedback:
There is some prevalent mistake of giving feedback that leaders often commit.
1. Making delay
2. Avoiding giving feedback
3. Talking about only the negative side
4. Not practising delivery
5. Not being specific
6. Become emotional
7. Making comparisons to others
8. Too obsessed with own idea-not giving an opportunity to employees to participate
9. Without hearing members making an action plan

Providing Constructive Feedback- Scenario:

Let’s have a look at three different types of team leaders and listen to their way of interaction while providing feedback to their team members and analyse the most appropriate way of giving feedback.
Recalling previous detail on constructive feedback, you are supposed to observe the interaction and need to reach a concluding point.
1- Scene- First type leader

Will: (Leader)
Hi dear friends! You have done too good and worked hard on the project. I am very glad to share, your performance is quite satisfactory. You have skilled yourself now and doing well. I appreciate you being professional at your work. And I thank you for giving extra time last week to complete the project. Without you, this project was not possible.

Member…

2- Scene – Second Type Leader

John: (Leader)
You are committing the same mistake time and again. If you feel unable to complete the project, just leave it, I can manage.
I don’t think, you are capable of undertaking this project. I must look for else.

Member…

3. Scene- Third Type Leader
George: (Leader)
Mr Camron, first I appreciate you for your being discipline and professional toward your work and organisation. You have presented an example for your colleague. I’m happy with your performance that you have done better this time and implemented a suggestion that I had given you.

Camron: (Member)
Thank you, George.

George:
What I have noticed is that your presentation requires a bit more engaging, you need to work on structure and tone. You should make your audience more interactive.
Camron: George, even I realise the same but didn’t find any relevant tool that I could use to make it more interesting. Can suggest me how I can make it more interesting.

George:
Okay, Camron, I am sharing you some file on your mail Id, it will surely help you considerably

Sum Up:
In this course, you learned how to master yourself in providing constructive feedback, how a leader approaches his team members, what are the wrong practices of the giving feedback.

Let’s have a glance at some of the main point of the course.

• Constructive feedback motivates team members and furnishes their professional behaviour.
• It avoids drama or any unpleasant situation in the office.
• It makes the member acquainted of their strengths and weaknesses which help them to work on their grey side and empower their bright side.
• It creates a team spirit among the members.
• Knowing the mannerism of giving constructive feedback, the team leader can deliver convey to the member effectively.

Poems by Shivram K

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Poems by Shivram K

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Jingoism- a blindfoldedness

“The most intellectual mind has the greater possibility to be corrupted.”

In the era of pandemonium, you can’t ask for peace from blind loggerheads, can’t you? In such chaotic state, one can hear everything but hardly can listen to anyone’s voice. And then I talk, we are here, behaving just like cattle holding our spirit of jingoism of our existence at the height- might be soaring above the head. Maybe your jingoism is not religious- Great Hinduism or Sovereign Islam or something else. Maybe the hoard of your community, you belong to. Maybe, you are crying day and night some political belief, yelling, bragging absolute blindly.
If you feel, it’s your own thought created in your own mind deliberately, but stealthily you have been monitored by somebody else whom probably you never have seen, who might be quite away from your reach.
Hold yourself, before it turns cancerous and defames the sanctity of your mind.
You must be self-reliant, should be trusting your own senses and following the direction your instinct instructs you.
Sometimes I question, is it there with me too?

I’m Not a Rapist.

My masculine impulses, covertly drives
A rapist desire
fleshy Appetite for fleshy devour
Intoxicated
As you supposed me
I think
Is not only truth.

A truth, neither you know I can escape
Of Symbiosis existence of us
For procreate
On this enormous Earth.
Approaching closer to you
Is not beastly to prey you
Nor I am drawn by your musk alike fragrance
But compassion
Which rules my conscience
And bears emotions
From embryo to infancy
And further attaining youth
Receiving your cozy love
Makes me A Man.

My sojourn inside you
Makes me realize
‘ I am not a lusty one but a companion.’
I’m turned gentle, tender and generous
Owing you
Your Womanliness.

Thank you- feeling grateful
Dear love- in many ways.

The catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

 

Another engaging classic story, such a crawling reading made me away from Holden’s stream of consciousness narratives. Honestly, I did not understand story completely, sometimes I slipped the page due to missing bookmark, sometimes I took it while sitting somewhere and people called me, and my hectic typing sometime struck my conscience and postponed it further.
As the stream of consciousness genre always remains interesting plot to read for me. However, the much I did understand Holden; he remains such a funny, hypocrite character throughout his narrative. He always believes himself superior of all and calls everyone ‘phony’ that makes him funny. It is story of a young teenage who thinks who knows everything. He always thinks beyond while truth is he behaves just like an iceberg- most part of things he misses because of his exaggerating and excess of egotistic nature. Sometimes I imagine, teaching in class or walking in corridor of the school has presented many more Holden before me. Obviously, I will through it again in anticipating vacation. And his hilarious dialogue can’t stop you without making you laugh like ‘Makes sure you marry someone who laughs at the same things you do’
Next I’m busy with another story sort of Bildungsroman genre, John’s ‘Looking for Alaska’, and most probably I might complete Dickens’ masterpiece “David Copperfield’ which I has left incomplete.

Meeting With a Stranger

You

Nobody I knew
when we met very first 
Sat at a bench under a vardurous tree
Of a random park
Where tramps ramble
– Laymen, old age and pairs.
We shared our sour blend sweet past.
We talked, laugh, and shared
A gender sensation when
You touched, relieved me
Being untouched..

SELF-SEEKING

…still I quest you

Trailing

In the pages of my life

From where we turned

And lost our ways

I retrospect.

Look- we stand still there

At our place

Along with our sinister ego

Having unconscionable HEART

Speculating

-who should address first

Though we sigh, oft, three magical words

To each other

Long since.

Teacher and Taught

 

A child is just an illiterate, uncultivated and crude material, born in a world of vain desires, irrevocably rat- rally under the burdens, confined in a room, having been curved of their wing of imagination.
Then, I was a child, studying in village primary school, could escape in mango garden to play in recesses along a throng of my cozy friend, never imagined, we were last generation of happy childhood. Teacher taught us, counseled telling stories, reciting fairy tales covertly passed moral by those fables on Saturday afternoon, sitting under tree which firmly settled deep inside of our psyche. And more over, evening game in the yard of village big mason, lying in grandma’s lap, believed moon was running above the stagnant cloud and interminably asked orderly people until they tired of my reason and fancy which was floating in enormous sky unlike gazing in screens.
Anyway, I can’t weep of those past. Past brings always a sweet memory.

But here I talk about teacher, taught and parents relationship. These three are the pillar of any society. But nowadays, a third person has intruded in their territory stealthily and monitoring them being remain absent of scenario. He is absent but omniscient in their every decision.

I did my school, college watching my teachers, framed an ideal image of this profession. But after spending more than two years in teaching, I reach to conclusion that those ideological utopian imageries were just an imagery or truth, I don’t know now. But for present, it’s changed.

Mostly schools of this era is just a factory, children for them a product, parents are costumer and teacher is everything except teacher. Irony, this poor creature doesn’t know he is transformed into something else who is buried under clerical works.
A child is just like a barren field, a teacher is like firm, devoted and kind farmer who can transcend any lands into a fertile field. But nowadays, former commits suicides if he is interrupted in his job and deprived of his needs. If anyhow, a former has breathed his last, then, field produces mere thorny plant.

For better crops, farmer and field both should be needed liberty, nurture and proper caring. For both are complements for each other and report card of any society.
So better if rather focusing on rising graph, people focus on rising value in kids, one can set a better future. Neither picture is clear before us- a wilderness of education. You will have educated products but lose education.

Teacher and Taught

 

A child is just an illiterate, uncultivated and crude material, born in a world of vain desires, irrevocably rat- rally under the burdens, confined in a room, having been curved of their wing of imagination.
Then, I was a child, studying in village primary school, could escape in mango garden to play in recesses along a throng of my cozy friend, never imagined, we were last generation of happy childhood. Teacher taught us, counseled telling stories, reciting fairy tales covertly passed moral by those fables on Saturday afternoon, sitting under tree which firmly settled deep inside of our psyche. And more over, evening game in the yard of village big mason, lying in grandma’s lap, believed moon was running above the stagnant cloud and interminably asked orderly people until they tired of my reason and fancy which was floating in enormous unlike gazing over screens.
Anyway, I can’t weep of those past. Past brings always a sweet memory.
But here I talk about teacher, taught and parents relationship. These three are the pillar of any society. But nowadays, a third person has intruded in their territory stealthily and monitoring them being remain absent of scenario. He is absent but omniscient in their every decision.
I did my school, college watching my teachers, framed an ideal image of this profession. But after spending more than two years in teaching, I reach to conclusion that those ideological utopian imageries were just an imagery or truth, I don’t know now. But for present, it’s changed.
Mostly schools of this era is just a factory, children for them a product, parents are costumer and teacher is everything except teachers. Irony, this poor creature doesn’t know he is transformed into something else who is buried under clerical works.
A child is just like a barren field, a teacher is like firm, devoted and kind farmer who can transcend any lands into a fertile field. But nowadays, former commits suicides if he is interrupted in his job and deprived of his needs. If anyhow, a former has breathed his last, then, field produces mere thorny plant.
For better crops, farmer and field both should be needed liberty, nurture and proper caring. For both are complements for each other and report card of any society.
So better if rather focusing on rising graph, people focus on rising value in kids, one can set a better future. Neither picture is clear before us- a wilderness of education. You will have educated products but lose education.