From the course: Quick Scripts for Difficult Conversations
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Script for positive feedback
From the course: Quick Scripts for Difficult Conversations
Script for positive feedback
- A long time ago, I was facilitating a manager training session, and one of the participants said, "I prefer negative feedback to positive feedback." "Why?" I asked her. "Because it's so much more helpful. When someone tells me, 'Good job.' I don't know what I did a good job at." Unfortunately, that's common. You want to be a great boss, you want to give positive feedback. This may sound strange, but a lot of people need to learn how to give positive feedback so it sticks. And if you're the kind of manager who forgets to give positive feedback because you're trying to put out fires, getting a few scripts for the task will help you remember to do it. So I'm going to do a few quick scripts for you. The first one is super simple. "Hey Mariana, great job getting all the data cleaned up in our system. This was a project that took a combination of high level strategy and the ability to grind out some hard work, and…