Conversational Leadership: The New Standard for Modern Leadership
Feedback is essential in every organization, yet the concept of a feedback culture often remains vague and subjectively interpreted. Rather than focusing solely on culture, it may be more practical to look at creating a ‘feedback environment.’ This approach offers concrete tools for how feedback is given and received, and is strongly linked to positive outcomes such as increased engagement, enhanced creativity, and reduced symptoms of burnout.
Better Conversations Start Here: 3 Books to Read in 2025
Feedback is essential in any organization, but the concept of a feedback culture is often vague and interpreted subjectively. Rather than focusing solely on culture, it can be more practical to consider the creation of a ‘feedback environment.’ This approach provides concrete tools for how feedback is given and received, and is strongly linked to various positive outcomes such as increased engagement, enhanced creativity, and reduced burnout symptoms.
Performance Reviews: Kind of Like Going to the Dentist?
Feedback is essential in any organization, but the idea of a feedback culture often remains vague and subject to interpretation. Rather than focusing solely on culture, it may be more practical to shift the attention to creating a ‘feedback environment.’ This approach offers concrete tools for how feedback is given and received, and it is closely linked to several positive outcomes, such as increased engagement, creativity, and reduced symptoms of burnout.
When does feedback truly have the desired impact?
In a previous blog post, we delved deeper into the predictors of psychological safety at the individual level. We mainly discussed which personal characteristics impact your sense of psychological safety, but also covered task characteristics and social aspects of your job. In this blog post, we’re taking it up a level: the team level. Psychological safety is, by nature, a concept at the team level. We know that it can be felt individually, but too much of a discrepancy in perceived psychological safety between team members is not ideal. Additionally, as an organization, you can do a lot to help, but there can be significant differences between teams within the same organization. So, the focus is on the team level. To keep things clear, we’d like to discuss three key points: how team characteristics can support psychological safety, which social interactions are relevant, and the importance of good leadership behavior.