Department of Human Resources

The Gift of Feedback

Giving and receiving feedback is one of a supervisor’s most important coaching tasks. It is also one of the most difficult. This session will provide lessons on how to achieve your fullest potential by learning how to ask for feedback.

Participants will:

• Know how to effectively and efficiently solicit feedback
• Understand the key steps for giving feedback and identify the differences between specific and vague feedback
• Learn how to address different employee reactions to feedback

Facilitator: Patty Samberg is a Training Coordinator for the office of Organizational Effectiveness for the U of M Human Resources department. She conducts Enterprise Financial System (EFS) training for the Duluth campus in addition to coordinate campuses. She also conducts Supervisory Development topics such as the Gift of Feedback.