A recent article on Harvard Business Review (HBR) asks: “Are You Sugarcoating Your Feedback Without Realizing It?“. Apparently, many employees want negative feedback to be delivered in a more candid way. It has been our experience that you best take that with a pinch of salt, if you work in a global context.
Make sure you adjust your candor to the culture in which you operate. Another article, published also on HBR a while ago by Andy Molinsky and TCM founder Christian Höferle, addresses this very topic: “When Crossing Cultures, Don’t Forget Praise“.
It stands to argue that every employee would like to receive relevant and actionable feedback for their work. But the way in which we present this feedback is culturally specific.
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