Feedback in Teams
Aims
Goal: give a colleague at your own level feedback — with no authority behind you — so the work improves and the relationship gets stronger, not weaker.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: No rank to hide behind
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: What a peer hears differently
Read a 219-word text about What a peer hears differently
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Team Feedback Vocabulary
6 items
- Framework6 min
Framework: The Side-by-Side
The Side-by-Side: Permission – Shared Goal – Observation – Build Together, 4 steps
- Reading10 min
Reading: Three model peer conversations
Read a 297-word text about Three model peer conversations
- Practice7 min
Practice: Improve the Peer Feedback
Error-correction exercise, 5 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Team Feedback Phrases
Gap-fill exercise, 5 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Giving Peer Feedback After a Project
Role-play: You and a colleague just finished a joint project. You want to share some feedback about the collaboration. The project went well overall, but communication was sometimes unclear. (9 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your mission: the side-by-side conversation
3 discussion questions
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Target vocabulary
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