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Tell me how you deliver a difficult feedback

Tell me how you deliver a difficult feedback

As a leader, you have to manage your team as well as ensure that they deliver.
How do you communicate constructively?
Narrate an incident in which you delivered a negative feedback to a team member. Tell about the incident and the impact.
Delivery is important to ensure correct message is passed on.
Do's
• Enable a safe and private interrupted space
• How you put the person at ease
• Conveyed the negative feedback
• Allowed the person to ask any questions
• Ensured no debate on feedback
Don'ts
• Didn't criticize the person
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• Tell me when you had to give someone a difficult feedback. How did you handle it?
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Few of biases as below · Anchoring - When an individual depends too heavily on an initial piece of information during decision making · Fixed pie - When we assume that our interests conflict with the other party's interests and we play adversarial · Framing - When we decide on our options differently when the options are presented with positive or negative connotations · Vividness – When we pay attention to strong features at the expense of less, that could be more impactful · Over confidence – When our subjective confidence is greater than the objective accuracy · Escalation – When initial decision is followed up with an irrational decision to justify the initial decision

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