Providing constructive feedback in the workplace is a proactive way to help ensure employees are performing up to expectations and challenging themselves professionally. When done correctly, ...

As a small business owner, it is important to provide your employees with thorough feedback about their performance. You can do this by providing your employees with performance management feedback on ...

Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated ...

Last month in this column, I provided an introduction to giving and receiving feedback within a team. This month I would like to review the three basic types of feedback: destructive, constructive and ...

Whether we realize it or not, we’re always giving or receiving feedback. Sometimes it’s explicit, like in a one-on-one meeting, or it’s implicit, through our tone of voice and body language. We might ...

If a person had food on their face, would you tell them? If not, why? Everyone wants to avoid potential embarrassment. Yet one study found that more than 97% of us wouldn’t say anything in that ...

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). Positive feedback—also called a positive feedback loop—is a self-perpetuating ...

Feedback loops play an important role in all aspects of life. Basic human physiology, for example, relies on feedback to maintain a safe environment. Feedback loops influence our behavior, and many ...

Why do people react defensively to feedback, even when the feedback is helpful and reasonable? Cognitive Distortions There are at least three common cognitive distortions that contribute to why people ...