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Title: Thanks for the Feedback
Subtitle: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well
Author: Sheila Heen, Douglas Stone
Narrator: Sheila Heen, Douglas Stone
Format: Unabridged
Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-04-14
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 438 votes
Genres: Business, Career Skills
Publisher's Summary:
The best-selling authors of the classic Difficult Conversations teach us how to turn evaluations, advice, criticisms, and coaching into productive listening and learning.
We swim in an ocean of feedback. Bosses, colleagues, customers - but also family, friends, and in-laws - they all have suggestions for our performance, parenting, or appearance. We know that feedback is essential for healthy relationships and professional development - but we dread it and often dismiss it.
Thats because receiving feedback sits at the junction of two conflicting human desires. We do want to learn and grow. And we also want to be accepted just as we are right now. Thanks for the Feedback is the first audiobook to address this tension head on. It explains why getting feedback is so crucial yet so challenging, and offers a powerful framework to help us take on lifes blizzard of off-hand comments, annual evaluations, and unsolicited advice with curiosity and grace.
The business world spends billions of dollars and millions of hours each year teaching people how to give feedback more effectively. Stone and Heen argue that weve got it backwards and show us why the smart money is on educating receivers - in the workplace and in personal relationships as well.
Coauthors of the international best-seller Difficult Conversations, Stone and Heen have spent the last 10 years working with businesses, nonprofits, governments, and families to determine what helps us learn and what gets in our way. With humor and clarity, they blend the latest insights from neuroscience and psychology with practical, hard-headed advice. The audiobook is destined to become a classic in the world of leadership, organizational behavior, and education.
Members Reviews:
Poor narration ruins yet another good read
The content in Thanks for the Feedback is useful, insightful, applicable, and valuable, and the authors write with credibility and humor. However, as with their previous book, Difficult Conversations, the content is rendered difficult to understand and therefore almost inaccessible due to poor narration (Douglas, sorry to give you this evaluative feedback: you mumble and your delivery is stilted; Sheila, your narration is somewhat better; at least you're easier to understand, if a little sing-song-y in places) and poor production (vocal pitch and modulation drop off to the point that it's impossible to hear the end of many sentences - where is the vocal coach?).
If this is ever re-recorded and re-released, I'd consider keeping it as a reference. Without a wholesale revision it's a slog to get through the first time, let alone experiencing it a second time.
Authors, if you're not trained in narration, please get someone else to read your work for you so your work presented in the best possible manner. Your audience will thank you for putting aside any ego attachment you may have in favor of accessibility.
Narration is fine!
Before you decide not to buy this audiobook based on reviews citing terrible narration, just be sure to check out the audio sample. Check for yourself if you find it irritating or fine. I respect others' opinions, sure. In my opinion the narration is just fine, and certainly not sufficient to deter me away from the useful and well-presented content.
