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The Folly Of Rebranding Feedback - Part 1

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Careers, Feedback, Leadership, Business, How-to, Development, Strategy, Management, Skills, Coaching, Advice

4.61.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

A WSJ article says the word “feedback” is too stressful for some, and recommends calling it something else. We disagree.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Manager Tools.

0:02.0

Today's cast The Folly of Rebranding Feedback Part 1.

0:07.0

Questions this cast answers are,

0:09.0

should I call feedback something else?

0:12.0

Do I need to soften my feedback and is response to

0:15.1

feedback generational? If you'd like answers to these questions and more, keep

0:20.0

listening.

0:25.0

Want to learn how to communicate better at work? In general, too, but your personal life is above my pay grade.

0:28.0

If you do, come to an ECC.

0:31.0

We're hosting a virtual effective communicator conference on January 3rd starts at 10 a.m.

0:36.2

Eastern. We'd love to see you there. Maybe you got a slow week at work. Come see us.

0:40.7

Sign up at manager dash tools.

0:43.4

com board slash training.

0:46.0

All our manager tools guidance, not all,

0:48.0

vast majorities of our manager tools guidance

0:51.0

is timeless, not timely. Yet, we're going to take a departure from that.

0:58.0

Given the fact that in September 2023, for those of the who are listening to

1:02.4

us in posterity, the Wall Street Journal

1:04.8

ran an article saying that the word feedback was too scary for some workers.

1:11.3

So they proposed the use of a different word. The guidance was so bad in this case though, so bad that we created an entire podcast series to refute said guidance and we don't normally do it. I mean we don't we don't

1:26.7

typically take the bait of that shockingly bad guidance but in this given article, or with this given article I should say, we

1:37.2

wanted to refute it, just in case anybody in our community read it and had any sort of wonderings whether or not or I suppose what our

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