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LET'S TALK

Therese Huston

Make Effective Feedback Your Superpower

A game-changing model for giving effective feedback to peers, employees, or even your boss--without offending or demotivating.
How are you supposed to tell someone that they're not meeting expectations without crushing their spirit? Regular feedback, when delivered skillfully, can turn average performers into the hardest workers and stars into superstars. Yet many see it as an awkward chore: Recent studies have revealed 37% of managers dread giving feedback, and 65% of employees wish their managers gave more feedback.

This trail-blazing new model eliminates the guesswork. Dr. Therese Huston, the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University, discovered that the key to being listened to is to listen. First, find out what kind of feedback an employee wants most: appreciation, coaching, or evaluation. If they crave one, they'll be more receptive once their need has been satisfied. Then Huston lays out counterintuitive strategies for delivering each type of feedback successfully, including:
- Start by saying your good intentions out loud: it may feel unnecessary, but it makes all the difference.
- Side with the person, not the problem: a bad habit or behavior is probably less entrenched than you think.
- Give reports a chance to correct inaccurate feedback: they want an opportunity to talk more than they want you to be a good talker.

This handbook will make a once-awkward chore feel natural, and, by greasing the wheels of regular feedback conversations, help managers improve performance, trust, and mutual understanding.

Therese Huston received her MS and PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Carnegie Mellon University. She is the founding director of the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at Seattle University. She has a robust speaking schedule, speaking regularly for academic audiences, businesses, and conferences. She has previously given talks at Microsoft, Amazon, TEDxStLouis, and Harvard Business School. Huston is also the author of Teaching What You Don't Know and How Women Decide.
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Published 2021-01-26 by Portfolio

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Author's article: The Simple Way to Make Giving Feedback Easier - Research shows that constructive feedback is more effective when you say your good intentions out loud. Read more...

Let's Talk belongs in the hands of every supervisor who wants to give effective feedback. Full of practical suggestions undergirded by workplace research, this user-friendly guide will give you the tools you need to bring out the best in the people you work with. Highly recommended!

Learn How to Give Feedback Like a Pro with 'Let's Talk' Author and Cognitive Scientist Therese Huston Read more...

Author's article: When you need to give tough feedback, forget Zoom and pick up the phone - It may seem counterintuitive, but It turns out that we perceive emotions and hear better when we don't see each other in a conversation... Read more...

Imagine being known as the person who makes those around them both successful and happy. Mastering how to give good feedback is essential. This book helps you navigate through the competing theories to become a feedback-giving maestro.

UK / Commonw.: Cornerstone / RH Business Books ; Chinese (compl.): CommonWealth Magazine ; Chinese (simpl.): CITIC ; Korean: Tornado

In this in-depth conversation, Dr Therese discusses her most recent book "Let's Talk", which delves into her pivotal research and explains ways to make yourself heard; discusses the most efficient ways of providing feedback, especially in 'the culture of nice', and the many lessons she's learned along the way; and describes why hiring more women "isn't a box ticking exercise" in the name of political correctness, but a vital progression that genuinely improves many aspects of the business including the bottom line, turnover and increased investment. Read more...

Therese Huston delivers a pep talk, toolkit, and decoding of employee behavior, all in one. Using both stories and science, she leaves us wiser, braver, fairer, and better. This book is a gift that belongs within arm's reach of every manager at all times.

If you've ever been afraid to deliver constructive criticism, this book is for you. It's full of practical examples and tactical tips to show you how to become an expert on giving feedback that works, and the type of leader that everyone will want to follow.

Giving great feedback--whether recognition, coaching or evaluation--is a game-changer when it comes to helping each other do our best work. We know that. And yet, it's incredibly difficult to do it well, in a way that's useful, fair, and strengthen relationships. Let's Talk breaks down giving feedback with the latest research, relevant stories, and actionable frameworks that we can all apply to turn feedback into a personal superpower.

podcast interview: In this conversation, Therese and I discuss how we can reduce bias that may unintentionally show up in our feedback. We examine several of the key feedback challenges for managers, including telling women they need to speak up, that they are too aggressive, or concerned they will "take it the wrong way." We also highlight key language that can help leaders make these conversations more productive and transparent. Read more...

It's easy to go your whole career giving well-intentioned but useless feedback. This brilliant book identifies the most common mistakes managers make with surgical precision, and empowers you with ninja listening skills, emotional management techniques, and whip-smart scripts to create real behavior change and lasting trust.

Rarely does an author make research so readable--and enjoyably instructive! You'll learn more about how you give feedback now versus how you can get better at it, engaging with people of all kinds. Therese's structure, descriptions, practices, and nuanced stories covering sensitive situations achieve something rare for a management book--entertainment, education, and humanity rolled into one.

I was impressed by Let's Talk's treatment of unconscious bias. The recommended practices allow managers to bypass influences of gender stereotypes that hinder the careers of strong women.