Why you might not have any feedback for your report
There’s plenty of research to support the critical importance of feedback to the success of professionals, their teams and their leaders. If you’re a manager and you’re actively trying to educate yourself about how to grow and become better at this job, you probably know that the art of giving feedback is both challenging and fundamentally essential to your role. But you might still be struggling to find any meaningful feedback for some of your reports. When you challenge yourself to give them feedback, or when they do the challenging, you find yourself telling them that they’re doing great and they should just keep at it. While reassurance that one is doing well is universally needed, it is no substitute to actionable feedback, and your reports are right not to be content. Something is preventing you from being the boss they wish for: someone who can help them be better aware of their current limitations, and push the envelope. There could be many reasons, but I’d like to sha