How To Get More Feedback At Work

Feedback is vitally important.

Feedback is how we improve performance. Feedback is how we engage employees at all levels. Feedback is how we measure progress in difficult to measure situations. Feedback is how we motivate others, and ourselves.

But feedback is lacking in most organizations.

I blame performance reviews. As well-meaning as the annual performance review was when it started, it had a number of unintended consequences. The intent was to make sure people got feedback on their work at least once a year. The unintended consequence is that many, if not most, people ended up only getting feedback once per year.

Managers are busy. Leaders mean well but can often drown in the demands of the organizations and the teams they lead. And when you’re taking on so many tasks, it’s easy to say “well, the annual performance review is coming soon, so we’ll handle feedback then.”

But if you’re serious about improving your performance, or your team’s performance, then you need more feedback than just annually. If you want to level up your own leadership, you can’t rely on the default cycle of once per year.

So, in this article, we’ll outline four ways you can get more feedback at work.

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