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Feedback – usually for the purpose of motivating or directing behavioral changes in the person receiving it – is a key element in career relationships from mentoring and coaching to supervision and education. However, it doesn't always work as intended. Research recently released by faculty members at Melbourne Business School, Australia, shows what types of feedback conversations produce better results.
The future of feedback: Motivate performance improvement through forward-looking feedback, released June 19th in the PLOS Journal (Public Library of Science) documents the experiences of hundreds of managers on three continents who participated in a written survey and two role-play studies on feedback.
The 4 key findings of the future-oriented feedback study include:
- Feedback can be better absorbed and lead to more change if this is the case geared towards the future. Conversations that focus on the past can turn minor disagreements into larger ones by focusing on where faults or responsibilities lie, and can be associated with less acceptance of feedback and less motivation to change.
- An individual's willingness to improve was directly related to how much the feedback conversation focused on generating new ideas for future success. People who rated the discussion as forward-looking accepted their feedback and showed a high level of change intent, even when the feedback was the most negative.
- Feedback providers and recipients can perceive the experience very differently. Those who provide feedback tend to attribute the causes of good and bad performance to the other person's skills and efforts. However, feedback recipients are more likely to attribute success to their positive traits and failures to external forces beyond their control, such as excessive job responsibility, lack of resources, and bad luck. Recipients of unfavorable feedback also rated it as imprecise and rated the feedback source as not credible.
- To stimulate behavior change, The feedback should focus less on diagnosing past performance and more on shaping future performance.
How can you provide feedback more effectively with a forward-thinking approach?
– David Grossman
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