Summary: Wes Kao shares effective methods for giving high-quality feedback quickly, emphasizing that it can be done in just 1-2 hours a week. He suggests focusing on impactful feedback, starting with structural insights, and using verbal methods to save time. The goal is to make feedback sustainable and actionable for both the giver and receiver.
Give feedback on the 20% of work output that will make the biggest impact. (View Highlight)
Giving written feedback is giving feedback on hard mode. It might take 30 minutes to write coherently what you can say in 3 minutes out loud. (View Highlight)
The benefit of written feedback is it’s highly scalable. But the downside is it takes time to write well, and realistically, you might not have that bandwidth. Don’t let that stop you from giving feedback. (View Highlight)
You want to make feedback easy for your recipient to take action on, but you also need to do it in a way that doesn’t burn yourself out.
Your direct reports would rather have you give feedback in the format you prefer than not get any at all. (View Highlight)