by Palena Neale | 20 Oct 2020 | Leadership
As a leader, you need to manage your staff’s performance – which often involves having difficult conversations. Enter Covid – plus working and leading remotely – and this just got a whole lot more complicated. Knowing how to provide development feedback is an...
by Palena Neale | 17 Jun 2020 | Leadership
A leader needs to build and maintain positive working relationships, guide their employees, and give – and receive – feedback. ‘Radical candor’ is a recognised leadership skill that has been achieving a lot of traction since 2017, with the publication of Kim Scott’s...
by Palena Neale | 8 Nov 2019 | Questions
We know that feedback is important for helping us learn and grow. But what happens when you move up the hierarchy and you receive less and less feedback? Leaders need to ensure that they create a feedback-rich environment for themselves and also for their teams as...
by Palena Neale | 18 Sep 2018 | Coaching
“I can’t believe that I am responsible for working with these donors, I have no idea how I got this job?!” “Anyone could have prepared the monitoring and evaluation plan on such short notice …it was nothing.” “All my colleagues are more talented than me, it is...
by Palena Neale | 11 Jun 2018 | Leadership, Learning
“We all need people who will give us feedback: that’s how we improve.” Bill Gates Have you ever given what you believe to be well thought out, developmental feedback with good intent, sensed it to be well delivered and then have had it fall flat, or worse be poorly...