Getting managers to give feedback

Well delivered feedback that focuses on an employee’s performance and described in behavioral terms is key to recognizing performance you’d like to see continued and stopping behavior that might get in an employee’s way. The problem is that managers don’t like to give feedback. Often they lack the skills to give useful feedback. Once you give managers the skills to give feedback, one way to ensure they give it is to ensure that you make sure that part of a manager’s performance review includes the quality and quantity of  feedback they have given to their staff in the last year.