Feedback

I’ve been swamped all week with work but today’s checklist was particularly difficult. Yes… it’s bi-annual review time. I’ve grown to realize the importance of feedback over the years, but I do admit that writing up feedback forms and reviews are a bit of a slog.

Giving the feedback is not the issue. Rather it’s the process of ensuring that I am comprehensive, thorough, and thoughtful. It’s not easy writing performance reviews and giving genuine constructive feedback.

Lots of people say they love receiving feedback, but few truly have grown to love it. We’re trying to change that at Secfi with more regular feedback sessions and much more candid discussions. Part of this process is ensuring that everyone takes the process seriously and that starts with me.

It may have been a long afternoon and evening working on feedback, but it’s all worth it. Feedback and team improvement are long-term efforts that must be started early on in the process. If you don’t create a culture around feedback and continuous improvement early on, it will be much harder to enforce down the road.