Leadership Through Feedback: Helping Subordinates Succeed

Raoul J. Buron and Dana McDonald-Mann

Effective feedback provides the information people need to build on their strengths and overcome weaknesses. Without it, the probability is that people will not identify their best skills and that weaknesses and errors will become ingrained through practice and repetition.

To succeed in your leadership role, you must learn how to make feedback a part of developing your subordinates to their full potential. More than that, you must learn how to provide effective feedback that is empowering, not damaging; that is constructive, not debilitating. The purpose of this article is to show you when and how to give effective feedback to subordinates.