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Life Kit

How To Give Good Feedback

Life Kit

NPR

Business, Kids & Family, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.54.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Massella Dukuly understands that the simple act of giving somebody feedback can be terrifying. But her job as director of learning and development at LifeLabs Learning is to teach people how to give good feedback.

In this episode, Dukuly shares five things to keep in mind as you're giving feedback to another person.

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0:00.0

Hi, Life Kit listeners.

0:03.8

We're looking to make Life Kit even more useful and enjoyable for you.

0:07.4

And to do that, we need your help.

0:09.8

Please consider completing a short anonymous survey at npr.org slash Life Kit Survey.

0:15.4

It will help us out so much and will give you a chance to tell us more about what you

0:19.2

like or don't like about the show.

0:21.4

Again, you can take the survey at npr.org slash Life Kit Survey.

0:26.2

And thanks.

0:27.2

This is npr's Life Kit.

0:31.2

I'm Julia Firland and today we're tackling something that I think a lot of people

0:35.3

struggle with at work.

0:36.9

How to give feedback.

0:39.3

Whether you're a boss or an intern or somewhere in between just talking to your peers, you're

0:44.2

gonna have to talk to someone about their performance at some point in your professional

0:48.4

life.

0:49.4

We're gonna start off with a perfect example of what not to do from HBO's insecure.

0:54.4

This from season one episode four, where Molly, who's one of the only black people in the

0:58.2

office, is approached by her boss.

1:00.1

Don't you just love the new summer associate class?

1:02.8

Oh, yeah.

1:03.8

I better watch out or one of them is gonna try and take my job.

1:09.0

Yeah.

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