Sheila Heen Quotes About Feedback

• There are three kinds of feedback and organizations must utilize all three to be effective:
  1. Evaluation. This rates you against standards and peers. It lets you know where you stand.
  2. Coaching. This information helps you get better and learn. It is an engine for learning.
  3. Appreciation. Most desire for feedback is usually for appreciation. It motivates us.

  Sheila Heen

  Appreciation, Organization, Coaching

• Other people have all kinds of information about you that is invisible to you. How do you get feedback?

  Sheila Heen

  People, Information, Kind

• People won't give you feedback until they think you actually want it.

  Sheila Heen

  Thinking, People, Giving

• The fastest way to change the feedback culture in an organization is for the leaders to become better receivers.

  Sheila Heen

  Organization, Leader, Culture

• Learning to receive feedback from each other is what leadership is all about.

  Sheila Heen

  Feedback

• We each have two human needs: To learn and grow & to be respected, accepted and loved the way you are. Even though feedback facilitates learning and growth, it conflicts with our need to feel respected. This is a key reason we resist feedback.

  Sheila Heen

  Two, Keys, Growth

• We swim in an ocean of feedback.

  Sheila Heen

  Ocean, Swim, Feedback

  Douglas Stone, Sheila Heen (2014). “Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well”, p.12, Penguin

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