Inclusive Feedback Skills for Managers
56mBeginner2025-03-06
Authors

Tara Frank
Best-Selling Author, Equity Strategist, C-Suite Advisor
Course details
Delivering high-quality feedback—especially when it’s corrective—can be challenging even for seasoned leaders. Add the need to cross social and cultural boundaries, and things really get dicey. In this research-based course, full of practical tools and approaches, LinkedIn Top Voice Tara Jaye Frank shows managers how to add inclusive principles to one of the most critical aspects of their job: delivering feedback. Tara shows you how to make the work of inclusive leadership possible and practical during the critical inflection points of a person’s career: when they’re learning, risking, growing, and changing.
Learning objectives
Articulate the challenges and disparities in giving inclusive feedback.
Convert criticism into constructive feedback that fosters employee growth.
Engage in meaningful discussions about employees' aspirations and career goals.
Build awareness of biases in feedback and apply strategies to assess, interrupt, and redirect biased feedback based on evidence.
Give clear, specific, and actionable feedback, distinguishing between ambiguous and constructive feedback.
Learning objectives
Articulate the challenges and disparities in giving inclusive feedback.
Convert criticism into constructive feedback that fosters employee growth.
Engage in meaningful discussions about employees' aspirations and career goals.
Build awareness of biases in feedback and apply strategies to assess, interrupt, and redirect biased feedback based on evidence.
Give clear, specific, and actionable feedback, distinguishing between ambiguous and constructive feedback.
Skills covered
Coaching and MentoringInclusive LeadershipDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)CommunicationLeadership SkillsProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Feedback - The gift we're not always giving
- 02 - Leading all people
1. Inclusive Feedback - Growth-Oriented
- 03 - Clarifying the destination
- 04 - From critical to constructive
- 05 - Accelerating growth
2. Inclusive Feedback - Relevant
- 06 - Respond, don't react
- 07 - Consider the source
- 08 - Combating bias in feedback
3. Inclusive Feedback - Timely
- 09 - Don't miss the moment
- 10 - Baby steps toward giant leaps
- 11 - Preventing reputational damage
4. Inclusive Feedback - Insightful
- 12 - Speaking the unspoken
- 13 - Harmful narratives
- 14 - A fighting chance
5. Inclusive Feedback - Actionable
- 15 - Keep doing what you're doing
- 16 - The power of specificity
- 17 - Performance in action
Conclusion
- 18 - You are the difference maker