Does employee feedback have to be such a train wreck? (No.)

We all know the buzzwords here. Can we slice through them?

I've written about employee feedback more times than I can even remember. I won't link all of them, because that seems a little self-involved, but two of my favorites were lessons from John Wooden (a successful guy) and some research around how rare feedback is, especially at work. That's the part I've never really understood. Feedback, and subsequently…