Why do people dread performance feedback?
Too often the emphasis on performance feedback is placed on the mistakes that individuals make. For many people, performance feedback is associated with getting a “bad” report card, or a remembrance of being scolded by one’s parents. Organizations need to shift the perception and mood around the process of giving and receiving feedback. Effective feedback should be an ongoing process of growth, improvement and reinforcement. 2. What’s performance feedback? Performance feedback is a process that allows people to know how they are doing, rewards them for successes and strengths, and helps them develop new skills for the challenges they face. It corrects performance in need of improving and sustains positive performance. Every opportunity that a leader has to communicate with his/her colleagues is an opportunity for feedback. Performance feedback is more than a manager to an employee, it also involves upward feedback. In the concept of a 360 degree performance assessment feedback is given
