This is one of many short notes on management that I'm planning to post on Substack. I might crosspost to the Forum/LW if there's interest. Happy to discuss in comments!

There's a difference between:

• Local feedback (”That email was really well clear, it would have been great if there were a summary too.”) and
• Global feedback (”I’m glad you work here. You’re especially strong at written communications, but it would be great if you could improve your attention to detail”).

You could be synced up with your direct report locally but not globally, or vice versa.

You could be giving too much negative local feedback and too much positive global feedback, or vice versa.

The weekly mini performance review

I’ve found it useful to write a short (3-4 sentence) piece of global feedback, like a mini performance review, for each person I manage. [...]

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Outline:

(00:55) The weekly mini performance review

(02:01) What might these look like?

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Linkpost URL:
https://custodienda.substack.com/p/global-vs-local-feedback

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