The 2018 Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Showdown!

Back in December, at a Mid-Atlantic leadership conference, the topic at hand was "Reviews and Feedback Culture." From there, it was decided that they would challenge the Northeast to a year long Review Showdown. The very next day, a representative issued the challenge to Io Hughto, RC of the Northeast at the NE Regional Conference. (Ahem, I issued that challenge over Slack DURING our conference. -edb) The challenge is simple. Over the course of the year, judges will write reviews. At the end

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Celebrating 100 Posts!

Welcome to The Feedback Loop's 100th post! In celebration of this milestone, we as the blog staff have each written 100 words about feedback and a brief introduction to our involvement in the judge program. Join us next week for a continuation of the celebration with contributions from you, our readers!  

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Les compè’reviews

(Article d'origine publié le 26 avril 2016 par et , traduit par ) RIKI : L’idée d’un compè’review (NdT : ou d’une consoeu’review d’ailleurs) m'est venu du fitness et de l’activité physique. Il est plus facile de suivre un régime ou un plan d’entraînement quand vous le faites avec un ami. Vous pouvez mettre en place une compétition entre vous si ce genre de chose vous motive. Vous pouvez vous aider l’un l’autre durant les périodes difficiles. Mais la plupart du temps,

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L’état du feedback

(Article d'origine publié le 5 avril 2016 par , traduit par ) Récemment on m’a demandé quelle était ma vision du feedback dans le Programme d’Arbitrage et ma vision sur ce blog ; j'ai alors été surpris par le peu de réflexion que j’avais accordé à une chose aussi fondamentale. Commençons par la grande question : pourquoi le feedback est-il important ? Celle-ci est assez simple pour moi mais je ne sais pas si je l’ai déjà exprimé de façon intelligible. Le feedback soutient

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La revue des reviews

(Article d'origine publié le 19 avril 2016 par traduit par ) Si vous êtes intéressés par les reviews, examiner des reviews, revoir des reviews examinées ou même ré-examiner des reviews examinées, la revue des reviews est faite pour vous. Dans la grande majorité de mes discussions sur les reviews, les arbitres ont souvent des excuses sur pourquoi il n’écrivent pas ou n’aiment pas écrire des reviews. Ces excuses expriment souvent une forme de peur. Les gens disent souvent que

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Giving Thanks

Thanksgiving. A holiday for eating turkey, watching football, and yes, giving thanks. “Thanks” is an important word in feedback, so much so that it is the name of my favorite book on the subject: Thanks for the Feedback by Douglas Stone and Sheila Heen. This book discusses feedback in three primary types: appreciation, coaching, and evaluation. I read a lot of pop psychology books. Malcolm Gladwell, Daniel Pink, the Heath brothers, Angela Duckworth. But among that library, Thanks for the

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The Spiderman Review

I’m not sure how many of you out there have been called a superhero. For those of you who haven’t, let me tell you: It definitely gets your attention.  A little over a year ago I received a review from that I refer to as the “Spiderman Review.”  This review was eye opening; it helped me realize that I had been living the “great power, great responsibility” mantra Spidey has become known for. The scope of the work I was doing at events and back home in Richmond was above the expectations

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Feedbag #7: Leading a Horse to Water

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of the Feedbag! Last time, we covered the subject of review drafts. This month, our question is about how to help enable feedback when you’re in a leadership role: I’m team leading at an upcoming event, and I’d like to encourage my team to review each other. Do you recommend any strategies or approaches that have worked well in facilitating review exchanges and/or making sure that the reviews are actually written after the event? This question is actually

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