Inclusive Feedback Skills for Managers

Inclusive Feedback Skills for Managers

56mBeginner2025-03-06

Authors

Tara Frank

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.

Skills covered

Coaching and MentoringInclusive LeadershipDiversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)CommunicationLeadership SkillsProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementOne-Off

Concepts

Introduction

  • Feedback - The gift we're not always giving
  • Leading all people

Inclusive Feedback - Growth-Oriented

  • Clarifying the destination
  • From critical to constructive
  • Accelerating growth

Inclusive Feedback - Relevant

  • Respond, don't react
  • Consider the source
  • Combating bias in feedback

Inclusive Feedback - Timely

  • Don't miss the moment
  • Baby steps toward giant leaps
  • Preventing reputational damage

Inclusive Feedback - Insightful

  • Speaking the unspoken
  • Harmful narratives
  • A fighting chance

Inclusive Feedback - Actionable

  • Keep doing what you're doing
  • The power of specificity
  • Performance in action

Conclusion

  • You are the difference maker
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