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title: "Productive/Performance Feedback: A Manager’s Guide To Giving Effective Feedback | Verity International"
description: Many leaders dread giving feedback, and yet we know that employees actually crave it. Most leaders tend to think of feedback as either “positive” or “negative”. This is part of what creates anxiety around delivering feedback. It’s more helpful to think of all feedback as developmental. Whether an employee needs to improve their performance, or strong performance deserves to be acknowledged, it’s all in service of continuous growth and development. In general, there are three hallmarks of effective feedback.
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##### Productive/Performance Feedback: A Manager’s Guide To Giving Effective Feedback

Delivering feedback is foundational in coaching employees and building the manager-employee relationship. In this guide, we examine ways you can give constructive feedback and develop your employee.

- What is constructive feedback and why is it important in the manager-employee relationship?
- How to avoid destructive feedback
- Best practices for delivering constructive feedback, and how to navigate the reactions that may arise when delivering feedback

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