Training Courses

Giving and Receiving Feedback

Course Aims:

This course is designed to provide participants with the skills and confidence to both give and receive feedback effectively to others in the organisation (e.g. boss, peers, and subordinates). During the module the participants will be expected to give and receive feedback from each other.

Course Objectives:

At the end of this course participants will be able to:
  • Give feedback to others (line manager, peers, and subordinates) in a proactive and effective way.
  • Receive feedback from others, judge its validity and make decisions about what to do with the feedback.
  • Use feedback skills to improve relationships.

Duration:

1 Day

What is Feedback?
  • Role of feedback
  • Purpose of feedback
  • Feedback as a gift
Developing effective interactions
  • Conscious competence
  • Unconscious incompetence
  • Personal disclosure
Key skills
  • Listening skills
  • Questioning skills
  • Observation skills
  • What you say and how you say it
Feedback practice
  • Giving feedback
  • Receiving feedback
  • Group feedback exercise
  • Individual feedback exercises
What to do when it goes wrong
  • Managing disagreements
  • Resolving conflicts
Action planning
  • Opportunities to give/receive feedback
  • Transferring learning back to the workplace