One of the biggest barriers to giving feedback isn't skill — it's anxiety. A Harvard Business Review article found that 21% of managers avoid giving negative feedback altogether, and 37% avoid giving positive feedback. Meanwhile, a Textio study found that 17% of employees leaving their company cite insufficient feedback as their primary reason for going. In this video, we explore Permission, Card 01 of the Giving Feedback suit from the Feedback Deck, and why asking for permission before sharing feedback — using a simple practice called The Opener — can reduce anxiety for the giver, defensiveness in the receiver, and turn what feels like a confrontation into a collaboration.

Whether you're a leader, a professional, or someone committed to continuous improvement, this video will shift how you think about giving feedback and growth.

Learn more about the Feedback Deck: https://feedbackliteracy.com/

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When we decide to act on feedback, we often treat the first few attempts as the finish line. But if you've been doing something a particular way for years — how you present, how you study, how you show up in relationships — change isn't a task, it's a process.

In this video, we explore Experiment, Card 01 of the Using Feedback suit from the Feedback Deck, and why treating each attempt at change as a form of practice — not performance — is the mindset shift that makes feedback actually stick. We also introduce the Low-Stakes Pilot and the power of pairing practice with reflection, including a personal story from Brazilian jiu-jitsu and mixed martial arts competition.

Whether you're a leader, a professional, or someone committed to continuous improvement, this video will shift how you think about feedback, behavior change, and growth.

Learn more about the Feedback Deck: https://feedbackliteracy.com/

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When difficult feedback lands, your body often speaks before your mind does — sweating palms, a tight chest, a stomach that drops. In this video, we explore Immerse, Card 01 of the Processing Feedback suit from the Feedback Deck, and why those physical reactions aren't interruptions to your thinking — they're data. Drawing on Robert Givler's 1924 insight that "ethics and physiology can no longer be studied apart" and research from the Yale School of Medicine linking emotional intelligence to less burnout and better performance, we introduce The Dive: a simple but powerful practice for moving between body and mind to process feedback more effectively.

Whether you're a leader, a professional, or someone committed to continuous improvement, this video will shift how you think about feedback, emotions, and growth.

Learn more about the Feedback Deck: https://feedbackliteracy.com/

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Receiving critical feedback can spike your heart rate by 50% — and that's not a metaphor, it's physiology. In this video, we explore Instinct, Card 01 of the Receiving Feedback suit from the Feedback Deck, and why the challenge of receiving feedback lives not just in the mind but in the body. Drawing on research from the NeuroLeadership Institute and a Harvard Business School study showing that 72% of employees want manager feedback yet only 5% feel they receive it, we unpack why so many people struggle to receive feedback — and introduce The Reset, a simple self-regulation practice to help you create enough internal safety to actually let the information in.

Whether you're a leader, a professional, or someone committed to continuous improvement, this video will shift how you think about feedback, your body, and growth.

Learn more about the Feedback Deck: https://feedbackliteracy.com/

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Most of us assume we know how we come across — but the gap between our intent and our actual impact is often invisible to us. In this video, we explore Awareness, Card 01 of the Seeking Feedback suit from the Feedback Deck, and why cultivating self-awareness is important but only part of the equation. Drawing on thousands of years of contemplative practice and William James's foundational insight on attention, we unpack why seeking feedback from the right people is one of the most powerful growth moves you can make — and introduce The Impact Check, a simple but targeted practice to help you find out exactly where you can grow the most.

Whether you're a leader, a professional, or someone committed to continuous improvement, this video will shift how you think about feedback, awareness, and growth.

Learn more about the Feedback Deck: https://feedbackliteracy.com/

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Whether Cameron Conaway was training as a professional mixed martial artist, writing poetry, leading teams at Cisco, or learning to deadlift — feedback was always the mechanism of improvement. Not just words from a coach or an editor, but every signal that told him what was working and what wasn't.

In this episode of 3-Minute Reframe, he makes the case that feedback literacy — the ability to seek, receive, process, use, and give feedback — sits deeper than learning itself, and is the true prerequisite for growth in any domain. He traces the academic origins of the term through researchers Paul Sutton, Wendy Gill, David Carless, and David Boud, and explains why he expanded the framework beyond the classroom.

Show Notes:
Engaging Feedback: Meaning, Identity and Power — Sutton & Gill
The Development of Student Feedback Literacy — Carless & Boud
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In 2013, Cameron Conaway was living in Thailand training in Muay Thai — a form of kickboxing that is the country's national sport — when he went on his first meditation retreat. What surfaced in the silence wasn't peace. It was a familiar itch he'd been managing his entire life through brutal physical training, rooted in childhood abuse and a belief he'd never consciously chosen to hold.

In this episode of 3-Minute Reframe, he shares what the retreat revealed: that not all bad habits are bad. Some of them got us through genuinely hard times. The question isn't whether to judge them — it's whether they're still serving the person you are right now.

Show Notes:
The Cage Fight in My Head — Cameron Conaway, Lion's Roar
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About two thousand years ago, a Greek painter named Apelles of Kos hid behind his paintings in public to hear honest reactions from strangers. When a shoemaker pointed out an error in the sandals he'd painted, Apelles corrected it immediately. When that same shoemaker then critiqued the legs, Apelles stepped out and told him to stay in his lane. That story is the origin of the Latin expression ne supra crepidam — not beyond the shoe.

In this episode of 3-Minute Reframe, Cameron weaves that ancient story together with a Brené Brown quote that makes the same essential point two thousand years later — and leaves you with one question to ask before your next feedback conversation.

Show Notes:
Ne Supra Crepidam & Feedback Communication — Cameron Conaway
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In Fall 2025, Cameron Conaway opened his office door at Penn State Smeal to find Don Hambrick — one of the most cited management scholars in the world — simply stopping by to say hello. No ego, no performance, just warmth. It was a quiet illustration of the very theory Hambrick is famous for.

In this episode of 3-Minute Reframe, Cameron connects Hambrick's Upper Echelons Theory to a question every leader is worth sitting with: which three experiences from your history are most shaping how you show up right now?

Show Notes:
Upper Echelons Theory: An Update — Hambrick (2007)
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When it rains it pours — but it can go the other way too. A small win creates the conditions for another, and another, until momentum that started almost imperceptibly becomes real. The trouble is most of us are so wired to notice what's going wrong that we dismiss what's going right as too small to count.

In this episode of 3-Minute Reframe, Cameron connects poet Samuel Green's idea of "small noticings" to Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer's landmark Progress Principle research — which analyzed nearly 12,000 diary entries to discover that small, forward momentum on meaningful work is the single greatest driver of inner work life.

Show Notes:
The Progress Principle — Amabile & Kramer, HBS
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