Tag: feedback

Digital Robber Barons

This week I published the following: Create a Personal Webpage Using GitHub Pages & Jekyll – This week we had the last year of our professional development focused on infusing computational thinking into middle and high school classrooms. I taught a breakout session focused on building simple webpages using GitHub Pages. What will digital life…

How to give feedback that really works, without hurting anyone more than you have to

How to give feedback that really works, without hurting anyone more than you have to (Quartz at Work)

Critiquing a colleague is never easy, but anyone can master the art of feedback.

As Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, famously stated, “You are not going to get very far in life based on what you already know.”   The tension between giving transparent feedback and caring for your direct reports is what makes giving good feedback so difficult. Kim Scott, a former executive at Google and…