giving-feedback

1# Giving Effective Feedback
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3Transform difficult conversations into catalysts for growth and high performance.
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5Help the user with giving effective feedback using insights from 30 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.
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7## How to Help
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91. **Preparation** - Help the user structure their thoughts using the GAIN framework to ensure feedback is goal-oriented and evidence-based.
102. **Roleplay** - Use the AI Voice Mode prompt to simulate the conversation and practice responding to potential defensiveness.
113. **Refinement** - Review a draft of the feedback to remove judgmental labels and ensure the user is 'staying on their side of the net.'
124. **Debrief** - Analyze the results of a feedback session and plan for necessary follow-up actions and commitments.
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14## Core Principles
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16### Care personally and challenge directly
17Kim Scott: "Radical Candor is just what happens when you care personally and challenge directly at the same time. And I think it's probably best understood by what it's not because we all fail on one of those two dimensions or both of them multiple times a day."
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19Effective constructive feedback requires balancing a genuine personal connection with the courage to be direct about what needs to change.
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21### Stay on your side of the net
22Carole Robin: "We don't understand that we are only privy to two out of the three, so I know what's going on for me and I know what I did. I have no idea what happened on your end."
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