How Transformational Leaders Deliver Employee Feedback

Dr Rick Goodman
4 min readJul 25, 2022

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Do you want to know how transformational leaders deliver employee feedback? You should because it leads to an increase in workplace engagement and creates happy work environment.

Here’s a simple truth about human nature: We all like to be praised when we do something well. Very few of us enjoy being criticized when we do something poorly.

But both kinds of feedback can ultimately be valuable: We need the affirmation just as surely as we need the correction.

And, as a leader, part of your job is delivering feedback as needed. That means offering both kinds of feedback to your employees — and frankly, it can sometimes be hard to know what to say and how to say it.

Is Employee Feedback Important?

For most of us, receiving feedback isn’t especially pleasant. We like to be praised when we do something right but loathe to be called out when we do something wrong. Sadly, a lot of workplace feedback plays into this dichotomy in the worst way possible: Many team leaders view…

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Dr Rick Goodman

Leadership Expert at www.rickgoodman.com | Author The Solutions Oriented Leader | Motivational Keynote Speaker | Executive Coach, Life Coach, Team Building,