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Your recognition doesn't work

Your recognition doesn't work

4/9/2020
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Friday Feedback #47: Too often, our recognition is so poor that it has a direct opposite effect. Instead, it becomes confusing feedback.

Let me repeat myself.


When you acknowledge, there's a high risk that it won't work according to your (otherwise good!) intentions.

Watch the video to find out why.

Basically, there is one classic pitfall when we acknowledge:

We are WAY too imprecise with our words. We don't give enough examples and the recipient doesn't understand what they actually did well.

As always, you can also watch the video on LinkedIn and the accompanying commentary track.

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