Comments on: Remembering Your Employee’s Strengths When Giving Difficult Feedback http://chriscoward.com/latestnews/remembering-employees-strengths-giving-difficult-feedback/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=remembering-employees-strengths-giving-difficult-feedback Transforming Ordinary Leaders Into Rock Star Leaders Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:29:14 +0000 hourly 1 By: John Cow http://chriscoward.com/latestnews/remembering-employees-strengths-giving-difficult-feedback/comment-page-1/#comment-275 John Cow Thu, 04 Sep 2008 17:17:24 +0000 http://chriscoward.com/?p=20#comment-275 Although I agree that when having to provide constructive criticism to an employee that you should lead up with the employees’ strength, I disagree with the outcome of what it sounds like the main objective was. It sounds to me as though the manager still failed to overcome one of the stresses (#2). I say this as it seems that in order to overcome this personal issue he in turn may have set an expectation with other team members that this particular employee was “awarded” for their inappropriate behaviour, since she was given shift in her role because he still had the fear of worrying about what would happen during and after the conversation with the employee - would she quit? Would she become toxic in the workplace? It sounds like the manager still took the easy route instead of dealing with the original issue at hand. John Cows last blog post..<a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/JohnCowDotCom/~3/382027705/" rel="nofollow">The Sumo Lounge and a Video That May Make You Stupid</a> Although I agree that when having to provide constructive criticism to an employee that you should lead up with the employees’ strength, I disagree with the outcome of what it sounds like the main objective was. It sounds to me as though the manager still failed to overcome one of the stresses (#2). I say this as it seems that in order to overcome this personal issue he in turn may have set an expectation with other team members that this particular employee was “awarded” for their inappropriate behaviour, since she was given shift in her role because he still had the fear of worrying about what would happen during and after the conversation with the employee – would she quit? Would she become toxic in the workplace?

It sounds like the manager still took the easy route instead of dealing with the original issue at hand.

John Cows last blog post..The Sumo Lounge and a Video That May Make You Stupid

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