Six tips for how to give powerful feedback as a leader, using empathy, being specific, and body language for feeding back positively and developing reports.

When you’re confident in your ability and actions, you’re more open to learning how you can improve. My colleague Stacey Finkelstein and I first discovered this in a study in which we asked our ...

Betsy Allen, a consultant-friend of ours, once said, “Leadership is cause; all else is effect.” And, while we may not like to admit it, she’s more than a little right. Related: Is Employee Feedback ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. It may seem obvious that you need to give employees ...

Feedback is a necessary part of personal and professional growth. We need feedback to understand how we are performing in our roles and where we are still developing. Understanding what we are doing ...

Many leaders I work with are finding themselves and their teams burnt out. There are numerous reasons for this. Many of us have been working from home and managing households—while managing work teams ...

This post is the fourth in a four-part series. The giving and receiving of feedback is a key interpersonal skill that applies way beyond the workplace. It's also essential for healthy relationships ...

Nice feedback is predominantly motivated by a desire to avoid conflict and protect feelings. While it may be well-intentioned and seem totally benign, in practice, it can be so vague that it leads to ...

One way to reward people is to give them praise ("Wow, you did a great job on that report"). And because we want to motivate people, and we think praise is a reward, we may tend to use it a lot. But ...