Even when addressing difficult topics on the job, discussions don’t have to be uncomfortable or awkward.

Giving feedback to your team members early in a new leadership role can feel risky. After all, you haven’t had time to establish credibility. But when done right, it can build trust and momentum. Here ...

Creating a culture where feedback flows openly and constructively is essential to employee growth and organizational health. But giving and receiving feedback in a way that’s both timely and helpful, ...

Companies keep asking employees for feedback, but what happens next? Employees often feel like they constantly fill out surveys, attend town halls, and deal with pulse checks, yet many employees feel ...

My student's voice trembled as she answered my question. "How do you think you've done so far?" I'd asked her. We'd been together on the general medicine inpatient ward for two weeks—the midpoint of ...

People get defensive quickly if they feel they are being criticized. So a good approach can be to present the feedback as an issue the two of you can work together to solve. (That way the change might ...

Martina van Heerden is a member of the South African Association of Academic Literacy Practitioners. It can be difficult to tell someone what you think of their work, even if you mean well and even if ...