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Useful Feedback Happens Before Things Escalate
Tip number six (out of the eight I originally outlined) is that to make feedback useful, it has to be delivered while there's still time...
Kate Siegel
Jan 5, 20242 min read
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Useful feedback comes regularly
Tip number five (out of the eight originally shared) is to make sure that giving feedback is not a rare occurrence. When we think about...
Kate Siegel
Dec 19, 20233 min read
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Useful feedback is not a sandwich
Imagine you're about to give some unpleasant critical feedback to someone who is definitely going to have a hard time taking it. What's...
Kate Siegel
Dec 11, 20233 min read
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Useful Feedback is Specific
Tip number three (out of the eight I originally outlined) is that to make feedback useful, it needs to be specific and not a vague or...
Kate Siegel
Dec 6, 20232 min read
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Useful Feedback Gets Delivered
Let's say that you want to give your direct report some feedback on the meeting they just ran. You have the idea of the behavior you...
Kate Siegel
Nov 27, 20232 min read
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Useful Feedback Focuses on Behavior
When I was acting, I got a lot of feedback that really wasn't helpful. "You're too tall for this role." "We need someone older." "We...
Kate Siegel
Nov 20, 20232 min read
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Eight Ways to Make Feedback Useful
When I first started managing people, I knew I was going to have to give feedback. I was nervous because the only real first-hand...
Kate Siegel
Nov 15, 20234 min read
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How strong is your growth mindset?
In a world filled with constant change, the way you approach new opportunities can make all the difference. Your mindset impacts the way...
Kate Siegel
Oct 23, 20232 min read
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Creating Work-Life Balance in HR
It's becoming increasingly more apparent that HR teams are facing challenges that other teams just don't face -- challenges that are more...
Kate Siegel
Oct 19, 20234 min read
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"I'm walking 100 tightropes all at once."
If you've never worked in HR, you just can't know what it's like to be an organization's therapist, coach, statistician, legal...
Kate Siegel
Sep 22, 20232 min read
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To learn and live better, embrace being bad
My fellow coach, Ian Lopez, has contributed this fantastic post -- check him out at www.cambioleadership.com As adults, we have the...
Kate Siegel
Jul 6, 20235 min read
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We don't listen, we reload
Good listening is key to all kinds of things -- understanding what's being asked (and what isn't), building relationships and trust, and...
Kate Siegel
Jun 20, 20234 min read
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How values help determine your career path
I went to my college reunion this past weekend and was struck by how many of my classmates were doing incredible work -- projects they...
Kate Siegel
Jun 5, 20233 min read
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Diagnosing the Problem (without solving it)
In yesterday's HR Swap, we focused on how to deal with the high volume and wide variety of problems people bring to HR without taking on...
Kate Siegel
May 26, 20233 min read
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Being Strategic - Takeaways from the HR Swap
In last week's HR Swap, we had a fantastic conversation about what it means to be "strategic" and how the participants decide where to...
Kate Siegel
May 15, 20233 min read
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Internal Boundaries
The last of the Seven Boundaries at Work are Internal Boundaries, and these are important not just at work, but in any relationship you...
Kate Siegel
Mar 28, 20233 min read
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Mental Boundaries
In keeping with the theme I've been working on lately, this post about Mental Boundaries will be somewhat similar to my previous posts on...
Kate Siegel
Mar 27, 20233 min read
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Emotional Boundaries
If you haven't been following along, you might want to check out my previous posts on Physical Boundaries, Conversational Boundaries,...
Kate Siegel
Mar 21, 20233 min read
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Time Boundaries
If you're just tuning into this series, you might want to check out my previous posts on Physical Boundaries, Conversational Boundaries,...
Kate Siegel
Mar 7, 20233 min read
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Material Boundaries
In Seven Types of Boundaries at Work, we looked at the seven different kinds of boundaries you may need at work (good title, no?) and...
Kate Siegel
Mar 2, 20233 min read
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