Good morning and welcome to the Increase Your Impact podcast. I'm Justin Sua, episode 2,2004.

One of the reasons you might be having a performance problem is because you have a feedback problem.

You're getting the feedback, you're hearing the advice, you're even agreeing with it, not because you're polite, but because the feedback is right.

You're learning to separate feel from real, how you feel things are going and how things really are going. But you're

noticing that nothing is changing. And that's because feedback by itself does not create improvement.

A feedback loop does.

Now, a feedback loop, if you've heard me talk about that before, it's a simple concept.

You get the feedback, you apply it, and then you go get feedback on the application.

You tighten the feedback loop, meaning what happened? what did we learn based on the feedback that

we just got did anything actually change did performance improve did the adjustment work

what happened as a result of the feedback that i just got if you're not checking the adjustment

there's no loop.

It's just information.

It's just empty words, go do this, improve this, without circling up on how you actually apply that.

High performers don't just collect feedback.

They don't just collect information.

They test it.

You make small adjustments.

You check quickly to tighten that loop.

So if your behavior isn't changing, the feedback didn't work.

You don't have a tight feedback loop.

And that is what's going to improve your system and your rate of progress.

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