Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McKitis.

Hello and thanks for joining us here for episode 470 with Dr Craig Bowden. I am excited to share

this conversation with you because I think it may very well be transformational with

regard to change the way you give and receive feedback forever as well as the way you give and receive

performance reviews so pretty high stakes high impact high fun if I may say so

so you'll learn one why the current performance view practice is broken.

Two, the key thing not to do when giving feedback and three, a different and better strategy

for regular reviews. So if you want to check out the show notes or the

transcript or the links to items that we've referenced, you can find them at

awesome at your job.com slash F four seven zero. Now here's Craig's good

stuff Craig Dowden, PhD, is an inspiring and thought-provoking executive

coach, Forbes author and keynote speaker who partners with leaders and executives to tackle

their most important personal and organizational challenges. Craig holds a doctorate in psychology with a concentration in business and is a certified positive psychology coach.

In his role as a trusted advisor, he integrates the latest findings in the science of leadership team and organizational excellence in his coaching and consulting work in 2009 Craig was recognized as one of Ottawa's 40 under 40 business leaders by the Ottawa Business Journal.

Thanks to Craig for spending some time with us and thanks to our sponsors. Check them out.

Now here's Craig. Craig thanks so much for joining us here on the How to Be Awesome at your Job Podcast.

Thanks so much for the invitation, Pete.

Looking forward to chatting with you.

I'm looking forward to it as well.

At first I want to hear a quick tale

about your nickname, Egg in high school,

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