Week 3: Feedback Strategies

1.  Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!"

2. How to Give Feedback Without Sounding Like a Jerk


I found these resources very interesting individually, but more particularly I enjoyed how they went hand-in-hand with one another. The first source covers much of its content in the title of avoiding the phrase "good job!" because it simplifies an achievement that can receive more than just a reduced phrase. Interestingly, the author also mentions about how in certain groups, like children, it draws a type of attention to them that makes them want to not repeat the behavior when told "good job" because it becomes lackluster, which is an interesting psychology.

The second source then helps to divert to another method of praise from just "good job." It is more detailed than just giving feedback, but rather structures why and how you should give feedback, and its methods of doing so. These include relating yourself to the person receiving feedback, as well as asking if they are open to receiving feedback, instead of just giving them feedback. These two go well together because sometimes people can give and receive feedback that sounds condescending, as the article gives the advice to, "take yourself off a pedestal."


Giving Good Feedback




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