Building a Feedback Relationship

Seth Godin’s recent post on Direct and useful project feedback contained a good tip on how to build a feedback relationship with a team. It seems so obvious – and yet, I’ve never been in a work environment where we tried this out. I’m going to change that!

How do you develop the trust and esteem you need in the third example? Sit with the team and jointly criticize other work. Before you start developing, spend time giving feedback on how someone else could have done a better job (on a design, on the foley in a movie, on a logo). By earning the right to give feedback externally, you make it more likely you’ve got the right to do it internally.