What's up, guys. On this episode today, I'm going to dive into feedback, criticism, punishment,

praise, all things team-related when it comes to getting things done, giving people feedback,

how to do it in a way that encourages people rather than discourages people, and why so many get it

wrong. Let me know what you think.

All right, so today I want to talk about praise over punishment. I want to talk about giving feedback versus insulting people.

And I want to talk about why so many people get this wrong.

And why is this an ongoing thing that I have discussed year over year, time over time again,

for the last decade of my career.

So the reason this is top of mind for me is I had multiple teammates come to me last week,

two specifically leaders in my company with questions about feedback they had given other people on their team.

The first one came to me and he sent me a conversation that he had with a teammate on his team and at the end said,

was this to hearf? And when I read the feedback that he gave his a teammate on his team and at the end said, was this to hearth?

And when I read the feedback that he gave his teammate, I actually thought to myself,

wow, I didn't, if I was somebody coming in from outside and he had not prompted this way,

I would not even know that what he gave was feedback.

It was vague and it was not directive.

And so my response was, actually, no, I don't think this was direct enough, right?

The second thing that happened was literally the next day.

I had a teammate say they had a, you know, more of a disciplinary conversation with somebody on the team.

When I say disciplinary, I just mean a conversation where they had to point out multiple things that somebody had, you know, made mistakes with and talk about what they wanted them to do instead.

And they said, you know, I just want to know if I was direct enough on this call.

I watched the call.

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