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How To Give Feedback To Your Manager
Help your managers become better leaders by giving them the feedback they need
Giving feedback to your manager can be tricky.
What if they don’t like what you say?
What if they take it the wrong way?
What if they turn against you?
People refuse to give candid feedback to their managers because they don’t want to put their jobs at risk.
This prevents most managers from getting an accurate picture of how others view them, often creating a huge gap between perception and reality.
When you don’t share what they need to hear, don’t expect your manager to improve or blame them for repeating behaviors and actions that hurt their team and impact your productivity and performance.
Just like your manager is expected to share constant feedback to help you learn and grow, you must also contribute to your manager’s growth. All managers have blind spots — unknowns in their circle of awareness (known unknowns) and things they don’t even know (unknown unknowns).
There are lurking gaps in how they see themselves (or their actions) and how others perceive them, leading to inadvertent blind spots. This is further exacerbated by their past…
