#Power of Feedback

[futureworktrends]

The Power of Feedback: Enhancing Employee Performance

Encouraging continuous development and realizing employee potential are essential for the success of a business in the rapid workplace of today. Feedback is one of the most successful strategies for achieving such goals. Good feedback acts as a driver for growth and development in addition to giving employees insightful information about their performance. This blog will examine the value of feedback in improving employee’s performance as well as practical methods for making the most of it.

1. Understanding the Impact of Feedback

Employees can better understand their strengths, opportunities for growth, and alignment with company objectives with the help of feedback. Organizations may foster a culture of transparency and accountability by understanding the power of feedback, which will propel ongoing improvement.

2. The Elements of Constructive Feedback

Giving positive feedback is an art that demands dexterity and tact. The key components of good feedback—specificity, timeliness, and an emphasis on actions rather than personalities—will be covered in this section. Managers that are skilled at providing constructive feedback can foster a growth-oriented environment.

3. Feedback as a Driver of Engagement

A successful organization is built on its foundation of engaged employees. Feedback is crucial for increasing employee engagement because it shows that a company respects their work and cares about their achievement. Organizations may encourage a sense of belonging and purpose among their employees through consistent feedback loops, which will increase employee enthusiasm and dedication.

4. Overcoming Challenges in Providing Feedback

Giving feedback can be difficult even with its advantages. This section will examine typical roadblocks, like conflict aversion, cultural disparities, and poor communication channels, and provide helpful solutions. Organizations can foster a feedback-rich culture that encourages ongoing learning and development by taking on these issues head-on.

5. Harnessing Technology for Feedback

Technology provides creative ways to streamline feedback processes in the digital age. Businesses can use a wide range of tools to make gathering and analyzing feedback easier, from anonymous surveys to real-time performance dashboards. Organizations can improve the efficacy and efficiency of their feedback processes and achieve measurable outcomes by successfully utilizing technology.

6. Cultivating a Feedback-Driven Culture

Both management and team must work together to create a culture that is driven by employee input. The methods for integrating feedback into company culture—such as leadership support, training campaigns, and recognition schemes—will be discussed in this section. Organizations may maximize employee potential and maintain a competitive edge by cultivating a culture of ongoing feedback and improvement.

To sum up, feedback is an effective instrument for raising employee performance and promoting organizational success. Through comprehension of its influence, proficiency in providing constructive criticism, and surmounting obstacles, establishments can establish an environment that prioritizes ongoing enhancement and involvement. By utilizing technology and fostering a feedback-driven culture, companies may enable their team to work at unprecedented levels and with unprecedented creativity. 

[billa-billa007]

Plateaus Be Gone! Breathe Life Back Into Your Business with My Free Guide

"Plateaus Be Gone" is a motivational phrase or mantra often used to express a desire to overcome stagnation, obstacles, or limitations in personal growth, skill development, or achievement. When people feel like they've reached a plateau in their progress, it means they've hit a point where they're no longer making significant improvements or advancements in their chosen pursuit.

[squoobest]

this pleasant étoile shows up at your door

[aulerean]

Me, aimlessly scribbling

My brain, every time without fail: hey what if you drew Catra again remember when we used to draw Catra-

[moodlemcdoodle]

Amy Rose designs and sketches for my superheroes sonic AU!! I love Amy so much, I tried really hard to do her justice! Girl next door who inexplicably has superpowers and just starts showing up with a hammer and a lot of determination to help her heroes, and over time becomes one of the greatest heroes in her own right!

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Taking a snooze.

[calmbigdipper]

Stand upgrades

[thepoisonroom]

'I flirted with the idea that instead of being trans that I was just a cross-dresser (a quirk, I thought, that could be quietly folded into an otherwise average life) and that my dysphoria was sexual in nature, and sexual only. And if my feelings were only sexual, then, I wondered, perhaps I wasn’t actually trans.

I had read about a book called The Man Who Would Be Queen, by a Northwestern University professor who believed that transwomen who were attracted to women were really confused fetishists, they wanted to be women to satisfy an autogynephilia. And though I first read about this book in the context of its debunkment and disparagement, I thought about the electricity of slipping on those tights, zipping up those boots, and a stream of guilt followed. Maybe this professor was right, and maybe I was only a fetishist. Not trans, just a misguided boy.

About a year later, on the Internet, I come across a transwoman who added a unique message to the crowd refuting this professor. Oh, I wish I remember who this woman was, and I wish even more that I could do better than paraphrase her, but I remember her saying something like this: “Well, of course I feel sexy putting on women’s clothing and having a woman’s body. If you feel comfortable in your body for the first time, won’t that probably mean it’ll be the first time you feel comfortable, too, with delighting in your body as a sexual thing?”'

-Casey Plett, Consciousness

[dykedvonte]

I dislike takes that Danse would be just as conservative in modernized aus when it's clearly shown his staunch views of things come from his time in the Brotherhood and his deep-rooted desire to belong to something with a greater purpose.

Not to mention lines that show much more open-mindedness that get overlooked for his harsher sentiments when you first meet him. Like the oppurtunity to be a part of something is why Danse fell so far into Brotherhood dogma and it doesn't negate the offense things he does but I feel like it's just lazy to be like "hmmm he'd def be racist" just so it aligns to his BoS beliefs.

[eurekq]

presenting the lady inquisitor, aoife lavellan

[casdeans-pie]

Part 2 of Flustered Castiel Accidentally Explodes Lightbulbs And Causes Power Outages Especially When Dean's Fingers Are In His Hair

Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4. Thanks again to @dreampencil for the inspiration to get this done!

Thanks to everyone for all the great feedback on part 1!

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The second time it happened, Dean was trying to make a joke out of it. (Even if the reason he did it wasn’t funny at all).

The thing about hunting The Winchester Way was that it sometimes involved dressing up in silly outfits.

Gym teacher, fitness instructor, insurance salesman, television crew, that one time they were zookeepers… The Winchesters never skipped an opportunity to infiltrate a case by wearing a ridiculous disguise. Nearly every hunter out there had pretended to be FBI, or doctors, or part of the CDC, but where was the fun in that? Something about putting on the outfits of these different people like he was stepping into their skin appealed to Dean’s inner child who had never had the time or opportunity to play pretend games.

Ironically, Dean had been calling it The Winchester Way since he and Sam had started hunting together, but at no point could either of them imagine John Winchester ever dressing up and pretending to be in any of the professions that they had used for a hunt like that. So, in fact, maybe it was just The Dean Winchester Way.

Which was fine with Dean.

And being an Angel didn’t excuse Cas from this.

If anything, it created an extra dimension of fun, because then Dean got to see Castiel Angel Of The Lord’s pouty bitchy frown whenever he had to wear whatever silly outfit they were using for their disguises.

But it had never backfired before…

The plan for the hunt had been simple: their research had led them to the deeply religious Mark Lomax, who’d unknowingly purchased a cursed pocket watch. He would be kept busy talking at his door with Dean and Cas, while Sam broke in through the back and removed the curse. To keep him talking for long enough Dean and Cas would be disguised as members of a new local church appealing for new followers to combat the evils of all the recent deaths and murders in town.

Simple.

Dean had no love for the cardigan-wearing-sensible-hair look, but he’d thought that it would be worth it to see Cas dressed up all dorky like that.

But the laughter that Dean had been ready to let loose turned to acid in his throat when Cas emerged from his room – with his frown firmly in place – and a name resounded like a thunderclap through Dean’s skull.

Emmanuel.

Dean froze where he stood, feeling his blood run cold.

And then, to his increasing horror, he distantly heard Sam complaining about the state of Cas’s hair through the ringing in his ears. Sam reached over and flattened the soft black spikes with his hands, completing the look even further.

Cas pouted the whole time.

Sam eventually stepped back to survey his work and nodded. “Much neater,” he said.

But Dean could almost feel his heart breaking all over again, remembering how it felt to look at Cas and see no recognition in his expression. Meeting his wife-

“Dean?” Cas said, the line between his eyebrows deep and furrowed at his long silence. His blue eyes locked onto Dean’s and held there.

You know me, Dean remembered thinking desperately, even as Cas- Emmanuel had looked at him like a total stranger.

The affection almost glowing in those same eyes now finally seemed to ground Dean back into reality.

Castiel. Cas. He wasn’t Emmanuel. He’d got his memories back.

You know me, Dean thought with relief, as he felt his heartrate slow.

“Dean?” Cas asked again, his voice low and laced with concern.

Sam cleared his throat.

Dean swallowed, shook off the last of the nightmarish flashback, and finally broke eye contact with Cas. He gestured at his hair. “C’mon, Sammy,” Dean whined with a shake of his head, “look what you’ve done to him. Lomax isn’t gonna believe this guy even leaves his house. Definitely won’t think he goes door-to-door.”

Without waiting for a reaction Dean took the two strides to stand in front of Cas and plunged his hands deep into his hair, intending to ruffle it back out and fully dispel the image of Emmanuel.

A few things happened at once.

The lights above them fizzed loudly as they flashed almost blindingly, while the whole bunker buzzed and groaned as every electronic console and device flared to life – dials whizzed, switches blinked, and car alarms all simultaneously blared from the garage. The lights flickered and dimmed and flashed brightly again. The electronic buzzing increased in pitch until it hit a reedy whine, and just when it felt like the whole bunker was going to overload or his eardrums were going to burst, Dean removed his hands from where he’d left them in Cas’s hair to slap them over his ears instead- and everything stopped.

The lights returned to normal, the ringing and the alarms stopped, and all the devices powered down again with a gentle hum…

Dean and Sam slowly removed their hands from their ears.  

The three of them looked at each other in the eerie silence.

Dean could see that Sam was fine, just a little shaken, but Cas’s chest was heaving as if he were short on breath. His hair stuck up at crazy angles where Dean’s hands had pushed in, and his wide eyes were once again locked onto him.

Sam looked up at the lights. “What was that? Should I check on the power?”

“Cas?” Dean asked hesitantly, remembering a similar phenomenon that had happened on a hunt once before.

Cas finally blinked. “Uh. Excuse me-” His voice came out at an even lower rumble than usual, and he practically ran back to his room. The door slammed behind him.

“What’s going on?” Sam said as he looked between Dean and where Cas had gone. “What happened?”

Dean let out a low breathy laugh. “I think… I think I know. But I uh, I might need to do one more test. Y’know, just to make sure.” He clapped Sam on the shoulder. “Nothing to worry about, Sammy. Just grownup stuff.”

Sam shrugged and snorted as he went to check on the consoles of dials and lights. “I shouldn’t even be surprised with you two anymore,” he mumbled as he went. “D’you think he’s coming back?”

“Yeah, yeah, we’ll give him five minutes to compose himself and then we’ll get the show back on the road.”

If Dean needed any more confirmation that Cas was really himself, here with them- here with Dean, well, that was certainly it.

His heart felt too big for his chest suddenly.

With his good mood restored Dean grinned as he looked out at where Cas had fled to. He flexed his hands by his side, remembering the brief moment that he’d had them in the feathery softness of Cas’s hair.

First, they had the hunt, but then Dean had an experiment to plan.

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Part 3: [link]

[rearranging-deck-chairs]

do you think that what the doctor usually feels for companions, rather than romantic or sexual attraction, might just be idolisation?

[where-the-water-flows]

What are 3 things that are nice around you? We gotta remember that positives exist

tagged by @howlingmoonrise - <3

bingley! the sweetest, stupidest little guy. traded all his braincells for soft; definition of eyes closed three paws can't lose.

my fancy bitch (not really)(kinda) mechanical keyboard, which has a set of lotus ink painting caps from aliexpress and delights me immensely.

a tin of danish butter cookies, which actually (currently) contains cookies, and not sewing supplies.

no pressure tags: @qilingxiong, @lianhuajing, @bettercostume, @junemermaid

yes pressure tags: @a-memory-a-distant-echo

Cat tax: mr beeps himself, asleep in the plush cat bed,apparently unbothered by the heat despite the fact it's like 34 fucking degrees °C

[sergeantjessi]

hey google how do you ask for reassurance without actually asking for it

[feelingtheaster99]

Oooooo I love the warlock teacher. Go off, Zara Sool!

“When it comes to manners of warlock, the only thing that counts is on the page.” For someone who was introduced like two minutes ago to me, already saying a BANGER of a line