They don’t want to hear it. They don’t. It is legit good feedback. It is substantive, and it is 100% true, but they do not want to hear it. How do you know this? You’ve provided the feedback several times. Three different variants of the critical feedback, and each time, the response is one of these: “I know, I know. I’m working on it.” They are not. An immediate, abrupt topic change. What? (My favorite) Twisting the feedback and making it about you. Impressive. This is not a bad employee, this is not a person incapable of changing, and this is most certainly not an adversarial situation. They don’t want to hear it. Not a Trick I have a move. It’s not a guarantee, but if you’ve tried the obvious approaches, if you’ve tried straight talk, and if you’ve made no progress, I offer The Slide. There are prerequisites for The Slide: You’ve tried a couple of different approaches to giving this feedback. They’ve heard it, but they have not acted. You have high confidence that if they actually…
No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.