Leadership skills: The art of giving effective feedback

Providing feedback is a standard part of work culture but there is often little focus or training on how to do this effectively. Someone once shared with me that they viewed feedback as a gift but they held this view because they trusted that feedback was being offered to them with positive intent. They also understood that by listening to the feedback, they might benefit from having a mirror held up to reveal ways of performing better, being more effective, and therefore more influential. Despite the value of effective feedback, it's a practice - both giving and receiving - that ofte...