This week Sara brings on Rene, Founder of a product innovation firm with extensive training and experience in industrial design. They discuss the joys and challenges of giving and receiving feedback. It can be challenging not to look at feedback with an anxious eye. It’s important to have context and do the information gathering to make feedback impactful.
Read MoreThis week Sara shares a Business Bite with us about Root Cause Analysis and The Five Whys. How can the five whys help someone identify the TRUE root cause to an event? This technique helps understand how to interpret or determine the real cause and effect of a particular problem.
Read MoreThis week Sara brings on Rachel, Managing Director of a consulting firm and CEO of a retail fashion brand. They talk about how sometimes it can be really exciting to receive feedback! Depending on the person who has prepared to share feedback with us, the experience can be an opportunity for transformation. Rather than being conflict avoidant, being open to feedback with excitement grants permission to learn from your mistakes.
Read MoreThis week on the podcast, Sara talks about high performing teams and the dimensions of team effectiveness. She shares one model for measuring team effectiveness across 8 domain. They developed statements and questions that spoke to the core of what makes an effective team. Sara introduces some of the influential elements.
Read MoreThis week Sara brings on Nathan, a Director of Specialized Behavioral Health Services. As a part of their discussion, they talk about how best to create safe spaces to provide feedback to clients, co-workers, and peers. When in a leadership role, it’s important to consider both relationship building and intention setting in the feedback process.
Read MoreThis week Sara takes a dive into The Thomas Kilmann Conflict Management Styles. People have different preferences around dealing with conflict. Rather assertiveness or cooperativeness each style that stems from that is neither good or bad. Sara talks about competing, collaborating, compromising, avoiding and accommodating.
Read MoreThis week on “Can I Offer You Some Feedback?” Sara is joined by Director of Operations and Personal Coach, Amy Glazer. They talk about the importance of fostering feedback to empower people, for meaningful results. Removing defenses and setting clear expectations can lead to feedback that is transformational.
Read MoreThe Kozlowski Leadership Sequence has four distinct components. Leaders move through different parts of a sequence in their approach to the teams they work with. The four phases are acting as a mentor, an instructor, a coach and a facilitator. Sara breaks down the objectives and goals of each part of the sequence.
Read MoreFeedback should be a give and take in every conversation, with relevant information that can be applied. This week on the podcast Sara brings on Goren, a Senior Director of Workforce Development, as they talk about positioning yourself to receive feedback. It’s important to prepare yourself to listen just as much as you prepare to speak.
Read MoreThis week on Business Bites, Sara shares on Tuckman's Model for Team Development which explains 5 different phases all teams move through. This process is designed to help teams perform better, while moving through each phase. Forming, storming, norming and performing helps better understand team dynamics.
Read MoreThis week Sara brings on Sarah who’s an outdoor education consultant and frequent provider of feedback. Sarah reflects on an experience where meaningful feedback was given all the time through leadership. With everyone on board, a culture of feedback can be created both formal and informal.
Read MoreThis week Sara talks about Mentorship vs Sponsorship. Two ideas with similar end goals that often get used interchangeably. A mentoring relationship provides support and advice to help an individual grow over time. While a sponsorship relationship functions by someone in a position of power actively providing growth.
Read MoreIn this new episode Sara is joined by Anna, program manager at Case Western Reserve University. She shares her change in perspective on feedback, based on her experiences. Her once immediate reaction to “bad news” turned to expanded understanding around feedback. Resulting in a flow of not only being the giver of feedback, but an open receiver.
Read MoreIn this episode Sara shares the concept Managing Expectations, for an all new Business Bite! This is something that is crucial, rather being a manager, individual contributor or running a large unit of an organization. When thinking about managing and setting expectations, Sara talks about three elements to consider. Ultimately ensuring that expectations are behavior based, clear and culturally bound.
Read MoreIn this episode, Sara is joined by Health IT Senior Project Manager, Bronwen. They discuss how feedback is a constant series of transactions. Oftentimes, emotions typically come up first before we can internalize the feedback given. The better we can control how we process and give out feedback, the more effective it will be.
Read MoreIn this episode Sara shares a bite with us, Radical Candor. This is a newer concept developed in 2017 by Kim Scott, and is the idea of providing feedback to advance people towards growth. The primary aspects of Radical Candor are challenging directly and caring personally. The goal is to provide specific, clear and concise feedback that helps guide them along and be successful in their role.
Read MoreIn this episode of “Can I Offer You Some Feedback?” Sara chats with IT Executive Howard. Listen as they discuss the importance of having strong relationships in place before offering feedback. If you care about someone enough to help them improve, tailoring that feedback to the person makes it more effective.
Read MoreOftentimes organizations think about succession planning too late. Succession Planning is one of the tools we use when we think about replacing new positions and identifying the new talent in organizations. Having this organizational continuity can result in success over time.
Read MoreHost Sara brings education and non-profit leader Sarah to the podcast. They talk through the importance of giving intentional and thoughtful feedback. When an individual is provided a collaborative approach that is well timed and actionable, it goes a long way in being of service to them.
Read MoreThis week on the podcast Sara gives us a business bite, Transparency. This term is more complicated than meets the eye, but should be a business best practice. It’s a way of thinking about how information is shared within an organization. However, in reality people struggle with just how much they want to share. Ultimately transparency helps to build trust and improve team operations.
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