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Increase Your Impact with Justin Su'a | A Podcast For Leaders

Episode 2,184: What did you see?

Increase Your Impact with Justin Su'a | A Podcast For Leaders

Justin Su'a

Business, Sports

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I talk about giving praise by telling them what you saw.

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0:00.0

Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact Podcast. I'm Justin Suwa, episode 2184.

0:07.2

There is a major league baseball player that I work with who texts me the same question after every single game.

0:15.0

And the question is this, what did you see? He always asked me that. What did you see?

0:22.4

One time I texted him great job after a game.

0:26.6

And he replied back very quickly.

0:28.9

He said, but what did you see?

0:31.6

This showed me that specific thoughtful feedback is what truly matters to him.

0:40.5

He can get the good job from fans. He can get the good job from family. But what he wants from me is the things that I observed, the little nuance, the tiny

0:47.6

things that matter a lot to him. And if you want to increase your impact as a coach or as a leader or as a teammate or as a

0:57.3

friend, a team captain, whatever you are, you want to praise people by going beyond the generic

1:03.5

good job, the generic out of a boy, whatever, at a girl, whatever it is. Instead, you want to

1:10.5

tell them specifically what you

1:12.7

noticed their effort anticipation execution attitude specific observations on what they did

1:20.3

provide tangible feedback that they can use to improve and repeat next time it gives them

1:26.7

something in their mind a tangible tangible evidence, a thing that

1:30.1

they can go back and do. Meaningful feedback encourages growth. And so my invitation to you is the next

1:39.3

time you want to go and pray someone, just tell them good job, take the time and pause and say, you know what,

1:44.9

I'm going to tell them what I noticed instead. And that's the kind of feedback that goes a long way.

1:52.6

That was a little excerpt from this week's Increase Your Impact podcast newsletter.

1:57.4

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2:05.1

Dot kit, k-it.com. And I would love to have you join. It goes out, join me. It goes

2:10.4

at every Monday at 7 a.m. Eastern and it's slowly growing. We just want to help people increase their

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