The wrong way to give feedback

Providing feedback is essential to improving performance but can do more harm if presented the wrong way, according to a column appearing in the Harvard Business Review. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, PhD, a professor of business psychology at University College London and a faculty member at Columbia University, outlined the following key indicators of harmful feedback:
-    It isn’t increasing the self-awareness of the recipient
-    Not enough negative feedback is given to let the recipient know what he or she is doing wrong
-    It isn’t backed up by data
-    A meaningful narrative isn’t presented with the feedback
-    It isn’t personalized to the recipient’s personality

Source: Harvard Business Review