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Delivering Difficult Feedback
February 10, 2023
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The only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your foot.
-Nadia Comaneci, Olympic Gymnast
“I’m here to be for you what someone once was for me.”

If you need to deliver constructive feedback, this phrase can help you frame a negative or awkward topic, whether it’s about chronically bad breath or a sorely needed shift in workplace behavior. According to Harvard Business Review:

Delivered in a calm and candid tone, this sentence can save a career, or life-altering moment, from becoming a decimating event with an alienating outcome by:
  • giving the other person a moment to brace themselves
  • leading by sharing a personal account of a tough feedback situation you experienced, which endorses the value of receiving and listening to criticism
  • instantly unifying you with the other person through your shared vulnerability
  • shifting them from hearing the message as disparagement to hearing it as encouragement or concern

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