Coaching practices for Corrective Feedback Study

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• When someone critiques my work I either avoid asking for it at all, or I fixate on whether it means I’m bad at this
• I’ll quiz myself hard and then leave the answer-checking for some later day that never quite comes
• I blurt out corrections in the heat of the moment, often right in front of other people, and instead of taking it in they just get humiliated and dig in
• Every time I raise an issue with someone they get defensive and we end up arguing about whether they’re a good person instead of fixing the actual problem
• I dread correcting someone because it always seems to come out as an attack on who they are, and they get defensive and shut down

Practices that may help

1. Feedback: extract the signal, ignore the noise
   Seek feedback fast, but use the part that actually tells you how to improve.
   Ultralearning: Aggressive, Self-Directed Learning
2. Receive corrective feedback promptly after a test attempt
   For error-based learning to work, feedback must follow the error — delay weakens the effect and risks embedding the wrong answer.
   Errorful Learning: Why Making Mistakes Strengthens Memory
3. Choose the right moment and setting for feedback
   Feedback lands in proportion to how safe and ready the receiver feels — timing and privacy matter.
   The SBI Feedback Model, Made Practical
4. Make feedback specific and behavioral, not evaluative
   Describe what you observed, not what it says about the person.
   The Feedback Sandwich: Why It Doesn’t Work and What to Do Instead
5. One-minute reprimands: immediate, specific, behavior-not-person
   Effective correction is fast, focuses on the specific behavior, and ends with reaffirmation of the person’s value.
   The One Minute Manager: Three Practices That Still Work
6. Ask for ideas about the future, not assessments of the past
   Replace "how did I do?" with "what ideas do you have for how I could do better?"
   Feedforward: Future-Focused Feedback That Actually Changes Behavior
7. Errorful Learning: Why Making Mistakes Strengthens Memory
   Errorful learning is the counterintuitive finding — supported by Nate Kornell and others — that generating incorrect answers before receiving the correct one produces better long-term retention than studying the correct answer directly. The error creates a memory "prediction error signal" that primes deeper encoding of the correction. This contradicts the instinct to protect learners from being wrong, but the effect is real and robust under specific conditions.
8. Add a forward-looking request to SBI
   Pair the impact statement with a specific, doable request for next time.
   The SBI Feedback Model, Made Practical
9. Seek developmental feedback, not just performance feedback
   Ask for feedback that challenges your assumptions about how you see, not just how you perform.
   Kegan’s Subject-Object Theory, Made Practical
10. Get immediate, specific feedback
    Shorten the gap between an attempt and knowing exactly what was wrong.
    Deliberate Practice, Not Just Practice

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