Sticky Notes: From Feedback to Focus

Giving constant, responsive feedback will transform your relationship with every person you manage.

The best managers make giving responsive, constant feedback a habit. It takes time and energy to stop what you are doing regularly, tune in to each person’s performance, think carefully, say something to evaluate each person’s work so far, and then keep each person moving in the right direction. But it will transform your relationship with every person you manage.

Their work becomes art because you remind them to be purposeful about every single detail. They build their repertoires of ability, one day at a time. From focusing, they learn focus itself and become black belts at whatever they do.

Bruce Tulgan
Bruce Tulgan is a best-selling author and CEO of RainmakerThinking, the management research, consulting, and training firm he founded in 1993. All of his work is based on 27 years of intensive workplace interviews and has been featured in thousands of news stories around the world. His newest book, “The Art of Being Indispensable at Work: Win Influence, Beat Overcommitment, and Get the Right Things Done” ( Harvard Business Review Press) is available for purchase from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and all major booksellers. Follow Tulgan on Twitter @BruceTulgan or visit his Website at: rainmakerthinking.com.