Do Employee Complaints Help or Harm the Workplace?

Do employee complaints help or harm the workplace? It depends. Like conflict itself, complaining has a bad reputation. That’s partly because we tend to think of the negative kind of complaints first. According to Alyson Meister and Nele Dael in their Harvard Business...
Feedback, Hot Buttons, and White Fragility

Feedback, Hot Buttons, and White Fragility

Being open to difficult feedback, even about racism, can help you grow. Receiving feedback without feeling defensive or triggered is a challenge. I work with my students and clients to increase their resiliency and ability to get the best from feedback of supervisors...
Getting “the Good Stuff” from Feedback

Getting “the Good Stuff” from Feedback

I confess that I have had a love-hate relationship with feedback. In my teaching and coaching, I am passionately committed to improving and growing. And, I always want to be a good spouse, friend, and colleague as well. Intellectually, I understand that getting...