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Feedback is for the Future

write formula feedback recognition coachingContinuing our let’s-define-terms trend from yesterday’s post (see Evaluative and Developmental Feedback), let’s take a look at the difference between coaching and feedback.  Mary Jo Asmus, in the aptly-named Coaching vs. Feedback, gives an interesting definition and explains why they’re not the same. She defines coaching as: Focused on future behavior Developmental Inquiry oriented Used [...]

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Evaluative and Developmental Feedback

Since we spend so much time talking about feedback, it can be useful to provide a focus for such a broad term. According to Linda Richardson, author of Sales Coaching: Making the Great Leap from Sales Manager to Sales Coach, there are two different languages in feedback. Evaluative feedback is what most people think of [...]

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