{"id":1764,"date":"2008-06-16T08:54:39","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T07:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/progmanager.wordpress.com\/?p=357"},"modified":"2008-06-16T08:54:39","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T07:54:39","slug":"affirming-feedback-and-praise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2008\/06\/16\/affirming-feedback-and-praise\/","title":{"rendered":"Affirming Feedback and Praise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I meet a lot of managers who confuse praise with affirming feedback.<\/p>\n<p>Affirming feedback is a tool used to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>make someone aware of a specific behaviour or action that they have taken,<\/li>\n<li>understand specifically the positive nature of the impacts of that behaviour or action,<\/li>\n<li>increase the chances of further examples of that behaviour or action in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Affirming feedback is a powerful tool primarily for influencing <strong>future <\/strong>behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>Praise on the other hand is about the past.\u00a0 It is about ensuring that someone feels recognised and valued for something that they have done.\u00a0 It is usually MUCH less specific than feedback and sometimes given with much less clear intent.\u00a0 It is just as powerful as affirming feedback and effective praise should be encouraged.<\/p>\n<p>However, praise is not without its risks.\u00a0 If praise is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>ill timed<\/li>\n<li>embarrassing<\/li>\n<li>diluted or over-inflated<\/li>\n<li>undeserved<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It can certainly do more harm than good.\u00a0 For more on the problems of praise read this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.execupundit.com\/2008\/06\/dangerous-praise.html\" target=\"_self\">post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Some thoughts on Best City outcomes\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/07\/05\/some-thoughts-on-best-city-outcomes\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Some thoughts on Best City outcomes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/06\/12\/getting-to-grips-with-social-finance-free-training\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Getting to Grips with Social Finance &#8211; FREE TRAINING<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Making Progress Through Austerity\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/16\/making-progress-through-austerity\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Making Progress Through Austerity<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Improving Employability&#8230;\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/15\/improving-employability\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Improving Employability&#8230;<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"How Should We Recognise a Successful Economy?\" href=\"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/2012\/05\/11\/how-should-we-recognise-a-successful-economy\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">How Should We Recognise a Successful Economy?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I meet a lot of managers who confuse praise with affirming feedback. Affirming feedback is a tool used to: make someone aware of a specific behaviour or action that they have taken, understand specifically the positive nature of the impacts of that behaviour or action, increase the chances of further examples of that behaviour or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[32,33,34,82,115,123,147,148],"class_list":["post-1764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-leadership","category-management","tag-change","tag-coaching","tag-communication","tag-feedback","tag-leadership","tag-management","tag-performance-improvement","tag-performance-management","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/realisedevelopment.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}