by Dawn Crawford (Author)
Unlock the creative and innovative potential of your team members with a new approach to feedback and review
In Kindly Review: The Secret to Giving and Receiving Feedback to Make Your Ideas Great is a transformative new approach to taking the sting out of the review process and unlocking the innovative and creative power of your teams. You'll learn to regain control over your work processes, from project start to completion, and get products to the finish line quickly and efficiently.
The author identifies eight "classic" styles of giving feedback and contrasts them with the effective Kind Review process, a system for creating respectful, collaborative, and innovative working environments. You'll find:
- Strategies for gathering, receiving, and giving feedback respectfully, productively, and kindly
- The reasons why receiving feedback can be so painful in the first place, and ways to reduce the emotional impact of critical and negative responses
- A comprehensive model for respectful workplace collaboration with team review and feedback at its foundation
A can't-miss roadmap to unlocking freedom, creativity, and innovation amongst your team members, Kindly Review belongs on the bookshelves of leader at for-profit firms, nonprofit agencies, and government departments looking for new ways to approach team leadership.
Front Jacket
We're all told we're experts in giving and receiving feedback. However, feedback can be a bitter pill, causing discomfort and stifling innovation. What if there was a way to transform the negative impact of feedback into a force that encouraged creativity and personal growth?
In Kindly Review: The Secret to Giving and Receiving Feedback to Make Your Ideas Great, veteran communicator and business leader Dawn Crawford delivers a radical approach to rethinking how to give and receive feedback at work. In the book, you'll learn to take control of your work processes to facilitate the creation of great ideas and get products to the finish line faster and more efficiently.
The author identifies eight distinct methods of giving feedback and contrasts them with the Kind Review process, a technique for creating a respectful and collaborative environment for creative critique. The process allows you to regain control over stressful work situations with its easy-to-implement strategies to make your workplace kinder.
Kindly Review is the first book to introduce a model of respectful workplace collaboration using team review and feedback. You'll discover why feedback can be so painful in the first place, how particular styles of feedback are especially difficult to deal with, and how to replace them with a process that encourages creativity, innovation, and progress.
An essential guide for managers, executives, directors, founders, entrepreneurs, and other business and innovation leaders, Kindly Review will earn a prominent place in the libraries of professionals at for-profit firms, nonprofit organizations, and government departments seeking ways to unlock the creative potential of their teams.
Back Jacket
Praise for Kindly Review
"Kindly Review is now required reading in our coaching programs. If you work in any field where people blur their personal styles and feelings with what's really best for the project--and c'mon, who doesn't?--this book is for you. Enough with the silent screaming inside, the meetings after the meeting, and the final-final-really-final-draft file names. Read this book and learn how to get feedback right from the start so you can collaborate well and get the work done without everyone secretly despising each other."
--Kivi Leroux Miller, founder and CEO of Nonprofit Marketing Guide
"We all give and receive feedback every day--from work to home to community--and there's something for everyone in this book to help us all do both better."
--Amy Sample Ward, CEO of NTEN, and author of The Tech That Comes Next
Transform the way your team gives and receives feedback--and unlock their creativity in the process
Kindly Review: The Secret to Giving and Receiving Feedback to Make Your Ideas Great is a revolutionary new approach to combating the toxic feedback that prevails in so many workplaces. You'll learn how to regain control over your work processes, unlock great ideas, and get products to the finish line quickly and efficiently. From project start to completion, the book shows you how to gather, receive, and give feedback respectfully, productively, and kindly.
A must-read blueprint for executives, directors, managers, business founders, entrepreneurs, and innovation leaders seeking practical strategies for improving the value-add they get from their feedback and review processes, Kindly Review is the creativity and innovation unlocking resource you've been waiting for.
Author Biography
Dawn Crawford is the founder and leader of BC/DC Ideas, a creative agency that has worked with over 100 nonprofit organizations, including the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association, to build better communications strategies and tactics. She is the creator of the Kind Review process, which has been used to build 1,000s of products over the last twelve years.