Feedback-feedforward cycle

Constructive feedback helps us not only to act but aids to feedforward, and make progressive changes.

Giving and receiving feedback is essential to improving performance and helping people mature. The excellent feedback provides us accurate information to improve; great questions to be self-aware; positive intention to change, and keen insight to help us grow and mature at a faster pace.

Feedback is important for success for the long term: The leaders or digital professionals should actively learn to improve themselves through constructive feedback or requested criticism. The value of feedback is to effectively connect our past learning to our future action. If we no longer reference the past, then we are likely to repeat mistakes of the past. However, the idea that feedback is only about the past is where the logical error creeps in. Feedback is always about how to improve performance so it is always about the future, for unlocking potential.

Feedback should always be genuinely precise, proper and substantive: Feedback is not limited and static as opposed to expansive and dynamic. If we want to create a great future, we need to be responsive to feedback. Constructive feedback helps us not only to act but aids to feedforward, and make progressive changes. Feedback needs to be relevant and continuous, as close to real time as possible, in control of the recipient and in a way the recipient can understand. So feedback is aimed to move forward.

Giving and receiving feedback is essential to improving performance and helping people mature: The crucial issue is that the content of the feedback is oriented towards behavior, and if we agree that behavior is an extension of the individual's mindset and personality, therefore, the topic becomes really touchy to cope with. Feedback-forward cannot be seen in isolation. The feedback forms have to be creative as to focus on both the past performance and future goals or changes to achieve the required goals. Evaluating the past can certainly lead us to a good insight towards the future.

We can live in a split second, or we can extend our presence to include the instance of our previous experience and also the opportunity of our future action. This is a different perspective on feedback. The quality of feedback depends on which cognitive or emotional status both sender and receiver have at the moment. So, there is a responsibility for both parties to consider the intention and attitude of sending and receiving, to bridge gaps and improve its effectiveness.

Posted in: Keywords in 21st Century,Talent Master