Employee Workplace Negative Feedback Event

A Employee Workplace Negative Feedback Event is a feedback event that facilitates the structured communication and discussion of employee workplace negative feedback items in a professional setting.



References

  • https://hbr.org/2025/01/5-mistakes-managers-make-when-giving-negative-feedback?utm_campaign=hbr&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedinnewsletter&tpcc=linkedinnewsletter
    • NOTES:
      • The article emphasizes that productive feedback events require managers to thoroughly prepare their documentation, understand employee responsibilities and expectations, gather concrete examples of performance issues, and collect evidence of how performance gaps impact team or organizational goals.
      • The article strongly advocates that feedback events should occur immediately when issues arise rather than waiting and allowing problems to accumulate, noting that delaying these conversations can be damaging to employees and remove opportunities for timely improvement.
      • The article highlights that effective feedback events rely on carefully structured open-ended questions like "How are you feeling about the job?" to uncover root causes of performance issues, with managers suspending judgment and listening actively to understand factors like personal issues, skill gaps, unclear direction, or motivation challenges.
      • The article emphasizes that feedback events must maintain focus on objective work deliverables, results and impacts rather than personal characteristics, recommending managers position themselves as facilitators between company needs and employee performance rather than adversaries.
      • The article stresses that feedback events must produce documented improvement plans with specific areas of concern, agreed-upon actions, clear milestones, scheduled check-in dates for progress reviews, and reasonable timelines for completion, rather than just delivering directions.