Giving Feedback to Subordinates (J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership)) [Paperback]

Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) (Author), Raoul J. Buron (Author), Dana McDonald-Mann (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 19, 2007 | ISBN-10: 1882197399 | ISBN-13: 978-1882197392 | Edition: 1

If you’re a manager with people who report directly to you, it’s important that you give them feedback on their behavior and performance. Most of your employees want to do a good job. Many are unaware of the impact of their behavior on their job performance, for good or bad. Feedback from you, their manager, can help them identify what they are doing well and build on those skills, correct problems, and develop new abilities that improve not just their personal lives but also the organization in which they and you work. This guidebook will tell when you should give feedback, how you should deliver it, and how to manage its results.

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About the Author

This series of guidebooks draws on the practical knowledge that the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) has generated, since its inception in 1970, through its research and educational activity conducted in partnership with hundreds of thousands of managers and executives. Much of this knowledge is shared-in a way that is distinct from the typical university department, professional association, or consultancy. CCL is not simply a collection of individual experts, although the individual credentials of its staff are impressive; rather it is a community, with its members holding certain principles in common and working together to understand and generate practical responses to today's leadership and organizational challenges.
The purpose of the series is to provide managers with specific advice on how to complete a developmental task or solve a leadership challenge. In doing that, the series carries out CCL's mission to advance the understanding, practice, and development of leadership for the benefit of society worldwide.

Raoul J. Buron is former director of feedback and coaching at CCL. He also trained in the Leadership at the Peak program and the Awareness Program for Executive Excellence (APEX) at CCL's Colorado Springs campus. Prior to joining CCL, Raoul was a tenured associate professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy and was director of the Academy Cadet Counseling and Leadership Development Center. He holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Southern California.

Dana McDonald-Mann is a former lead trainer and senior program associate on CCL's faculty. In that role she facilitated assessment-related workshops at CCL and at client locations, and conducted one-on-one feedback sessions for managers and executives. She holds a Ph.D. in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Product Details

• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Pfeiffer; 1 edition (March 19, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882197399
• ISBN-13: 978-1882197392
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 6.1 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #927,129 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A Tool For The Every Day Manager or Supervisor, June 15, 2000

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"kjenn" (Kearney, Nebraska) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Giving Feedback to Subordinates (J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership)) (Paperback)

If you supervise even just one person, you will find this book helpful and insightful. New managers especially can have difficulty when counseling subordinates and this book helps and guides new supervisors as well as managers at any level.

3.0 out of 5 stars Very Basic and Disappointing--A Glorified Pamphlet, September 11, 2010

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William Corsair "Will" (Leavenworth County, KS USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Giving Feedback to Subordinates (J-B CCL (Center for Creative Leadership)) (Paperback)

I guess I should have expected that a thirty-page booklet wouldn't have much meat, and I was right. This material is good, as far as it goes. It's just a gloss, however.

If you're new to management and are concerned or intimidated about giving direct, honest feedback to subordinates then this pamphlet is a good (although expensive for what it is) place to start. If you've been around for awhile, then look elsewhere and spend your money more wisely.

Some of the other titles in this "For the Practicing Manager" series looked intriguing but I'll look elsewhere. Given the bad taste in my mouth about this one, I won't purchase another twelve-dollar pamphlet.