Coaching practices for Honest Feedback is Caring

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

• I treat feedback like one dial running from gentle to harsh, so every time I want to be kinder I water down the truth, and every time I want to be honest I come off cold
• I have something honest I need to tell someone, and I’m stuck on how to say it
• I open every tough conversation with a quick "I really value you, but…" and I’ve noticed people now flinch the moment I compliment them
• I dish out plenty of feedback but I’ve never once asked my team to tell me what I’m getting wrong, and I think that’s exactly why they don’t trust that honesty around here is safe
• The instant someone gives me hard feedback I’m already explaining and defending myself

Practices that may help

1. Place feedback on the 2x2
   Two axes — care personally and challenge directly — define four quadrants; only one is radical candor.
   Radical Candor, Made Practical
2. Adapt how you deliver feedback to the person’s style
   Deliver the same honest feedback in the form the other person can actually hear it.
   The Platinum Rule
3. Care personally
   Show you give a damn about the person, not just their output.
   Radical Candor, Made Practical
4. Ask for feedback before you give it
   Earn the right to challenge by inviting challenge yourself, first.
   Radical Candor, Made Practical
5. Receive feedback with minimal defensiveness
   Treat feedback as data about others’ experience — not as a verdict on your character.
   The Johari Window
6. Give something genuine before you ask for something hard
   The trust account needs deposits before you make a withdrawal — invest in the relationship before demanding performance.
   Caring Personally: The Foundation of Radical Candor
7. Establish shared purpose before delivering critique
   Frame critique as help toward a shared goal, not an evaluation from above.
   The Feedback Sandwich: Why It Doesn’t Work and What to Do Instead
8. Seek accurate feedback, not exclusively positive feedback
   Train yourself to want feedback that is true over feedback that feels good.
   Self-Verification Theory, Made Practical
9. Challenge directly
   Say the hard thing clearly, soon, and to the person’s face.
   Radical Candor, Made Practical
10. Invite a response after delivering SBI
    Close SBI by asking what the other person makes of it — not with a verdict.
    The SBI Feedback Model, Made Practical

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