Feedback in Teams

B2 · Upper-intermediate1 hr 13 minBusiness EnglishLesson 5 of 8 · Outline

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

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: No rank to hide behind

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: What a peer hears differently

    Read a 219-word text about What a peer hears differently

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Team Feedback Vocabulary

    6 items

  3. Framework6 min

    Framework: The Side-by-Side

    The Side-by-Side: Permission – Shared Goal – Observation – Build Together, 4 steps

  4. Reading10 min

    Reading: Three model peer conversations

    Read a 297-word text about Three model peer conversations

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Improve the Peer Feedback

    Error-correction exercise, 5 items

  6. Practice7 min

    Practice: Team Feedback Phrases

    Gap-fill exercise, 5 items

  7. 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)

  8. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: the side-by-side conversation

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

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