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Positive feedback
Positive feedback focuses on the strengths, talents, and achievements of an employee or a team. This way, it communicates to the members of a team what they are doing well and what they should continue doing, stimulating improvement and creating a positive culture of open communication.
Developing employees' strengths by giving them positive feedback is a much more effective approach than focusing attention on weaknesses. Organizational psychologist Dr. Marcial Losada found that in high-performing teams the ratio of positive and negative feedback was about 6 to 1. In addition, positive feedback stimulates the production of oxytocin, the happiness hormone, in the brain.
The influence of positive feedback
Many studies have verified the effectiveness of feedback in aspects such as teaching or sports. Also in the business sphere, both with our customers and with our employees, feedback -especially positive feedback- has a motivating and implicating power that we should not miss out on.
Tips for effective Feedback
The difference between giving feedback and giving effective feedback makes all the difference in successful organizations. Taking care of every detail in the feedback will make your team always open to receive and give feedback, and to have a healthy and trusting culture.
If you want my commitment, give me feedback
What is special about those work environments in which everything seems to flow and in which people relate naturally, supporting each other? After studying many cases and settings, we have come to a simple conclusion.
