Conventional wisdom has it that you should sandwich negative feedback between two pieces of positive feedback. You can read about “the hamburger method” here.
Shelle Rose Charvet points out that most people already know the method. Now, when they hear positive feedback, they simply bypass it and wait fo the shoe to drop (then they ignore [...]
Giving feedback: is the “sandwich” valuable, or trite and ineffective?
August 12th, 2008 · 9 Comments
“Self-promoting w/o being a jerk” — good topic?
May 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Today’s podcast is about how to be self-promoting without being a jerk about it. I think it’s one of my better podcasts. What do you think? Should this be expanded into a chapter (or part of a chapter) in the book?
If so, do you have specific examples, questions, stories, etc. that you’d like me to [...]
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