Exploiting Feedback to Improve Bottom-Line Performance
Feedback is a management tool that should be considered in every aspect of any business, regardless of industry, employees or customer base.
While feedback is vital to the growth and sustained success of any business, regardless of industry, employees or customer base, it may often be met with some level of resistance or uncertainty. For some, feedback seems to equate to—and therefore is received or delivered as – (negative) criticism, when in reality, this belief or response is unwarranted.
According to Merriam-Webster, the definition of feedback is: “the transmission of evaluative or corrective information about an action, event, or process to the original or controlling source; also, the information so transmitted.” Such information may be communicated about an employee or…
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