Stop Avoiding: Why Feedback Is Your Core Leadership Lever

Leadership feedback mastery and how to give feedback as a core leadership lever. This episode breaks down effective feedback skills, feedback conversations, and constructive feedback at work in a practical, non-theoretical way. Learn simple performance feedback tips you can apply this week to improve team performance and your coaching as a manager.

What You'll Learn:

• Why high-quality, timely leadership feedback is one of the most evidence-based drivers of individual and team performance
• How avoiding feedback through “Polite Avoidance” and “Perfection Paralysis” quietly caps your team’s growth and engagement
• A practical reframe that turns feedback from conflict and criticism into collaborative course-correction
• Concrete examples of effective feedback skills you can practice in day-to-day manager communication
• How to use feedback conversations as a coaching tool, not just a performance management requirement
• A simple method to capture and review key takeaways so you actually remember and act on what you learn
• How to pick one real situation on your team and design a specific, constructive feedback conversation for it
• A small, low-risk action you can take this week to start building confidence and momentum with feedback