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Passionate About Feedback
January 16, 2008
Just to be alive is a grand thing.
-Agatha Christie
-Agatha Christie
"It's the most elementary principle of learning: If you don't know how you've performed, you don't learn and you soon stop caring. Yet at many companies, feedback is rare; candid feedback even rarer. The companies on our list combine frequent, honest assessment with plenty of mentoring and support. So when people are told what skills they need to improve, they're also offered programs or coaching for doing it. Many of the CEOs of these companies, when asked how they reached the top, tell similar stories about the importance of a few key mentors who consistently evaluated them. Whirlpool's [Jeff] Fettig is typical: 'I am here today in part due to a handful of people who, before it was in vogue, provided coaching and mentoring to me early in my career. That helped me to develop.' At Natura Cosmeticos, Brazil's largest cosmetics company, emerging leaders may even shadow a high-level executive for three to six months."
Our Manager's Tool Kit is now on sale on our web site. Included in the kit are...
- The Art of Leadership: Managing Early Childhood Organizations
- Managing Money: A Center Director’s Guidebook
- Stick Your Neck Out �" A Street-Smart Guide to Creating Change in Your Community and Beyond
- 250 Management Success Stories from Child Care Directors
- Exchange Article CD Collection #9: Taking Stock �" Evaluation Tools for Program, Teacher, and Director
- Exchange Article CD Collection #5: Supervising Staff
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