172 – Feedback doesn’t work

Our last episode of?Anecdotally Speaking?for 2022, our holiday special, is available! To listen to?Feedback doesn’t work,?click here.

This week, Mark shares a story about feedback featuring professional footballer Lionel Messi. He and Shawn were inspired to share it after seeing Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall’s article,?The Feedback Fallacy, listed as one of twelve HBR editors’ favourites in?Celebrating a Century of Harvard Business Review. Mark references?this video?of Messi.

The story makes several meaningful business points, including:

• Giving feedback doesn’t work;
• Strengths, not weaknesses, offer growth opportunities;
• Focus on the positive;
• Focus on your people’s strengths; and
• If something isn’t working, change tact.

Thank you for supporting our podcast. We were so happy to reach?150,000 downloads?last Friday!

We’re taking a short, three-week break, but we will be back to add more stories to your repertoire on?Tuesday, the 17th of January, 2023! The Anecdote office will also be closed from Friday, the 23rd of December and reopen on Monday, the 9th of January.

We hope you have a safe and happy holiday period!