How to give feedback to the boss

  • April 16, 2013

While it could be bad for your career to point out every misstep your boss makes, you’re more likely to get a boost if you can kindly communicate constructive...

5 steps to giving effective feedback

  • January 18, 2013

You give instructions, but people don’t follow your lead. The solution is to prepare so that you provide supportive, timely coaching. Follow these five steps to...

How to Create an Employee Performance Log

  • January 01, 2013

Some managers tend to evaluate team members based on their most recent positive or negative encounter. This hap­pens most often when a manager has no record of an...

How to deliver critical feedback that sticks

  • December 04, 2012

Effective leaders often say they prefer to earn employees’ respect than to befriend them. The test comes when these bosses need to dish out criticism. To express...

Tactics to increase employee feedback

  • August 21, 2012

Some ideas on getting candid feedback: To verify whether you’re hearing the truth, put mechanisms in place such as ombudsmen, hotlines and surveys. To encourage...

7-step approach to giving feedback

  • June 26, 2012

Bosses aren’t the only ones who can provide feedback to employees. Giving negative feedback requires you to counsel and criticize in a way that alerts a co-worker...

What If Analysis in Excel: Goal Seek

  • June 24, 2012

You’ve plugged in the values for a PMT (payment) function to determine how much the payment will be only to find that the payment is a bit too much for your budget....