Target Audience: All staff (Academic and Professional Services) with or taking on management/leadership responsibilities.

Constructive feedback in the workplace is extremely important: workplaces need effective communication to succeed and thrive. As well as increasing staff morale, feedback helps us learn more about ourselves, our strengths and weaknesses, our behaviours, and how our actions affect others. It also increases our self-awareness and encourages personal development.

Feedback won’t always be positive. Negative feedback highlights areas where we need to improve and helps make our work much better in the long run. However, it is important to deliver feedback skilfully and productively, otherwise it provides no basis for development.

By the end of this workshop, participants will feel more confident to deliver feedback that is clear, concise and purposeful.

Learning Outcomes:

The benefits of giving effective feedback, for both the giver and receiver
The reasons we may avoid giving feedback and factors that can make feedback less effective
Models for giving more effective feedback.

Please register using your Sussex email address (e.g. ab123@sussex). A link to join the session will be emailed to you the day before the event.

Late cancellations that leave places empty have considerable cost implications for the University and take away the opportunity for other staff members who might wish to attend. Given this, a late cancellation fee of £50 will be charged to your School or Division if you cancel your booking within three days of the course start date. Please let us know as soon as possible if you need to cancel your place by emailing od@sussex.ac.uk.

Exceptions may be made for illness, evidenced by your line manager or doctor's note, or a family emergency. We are happy for you to substitute your place if you notify us before the course commences.

Please let us know as soon as possible if you have any specific requirements regarding this staff development activity (e.g., hearing/visual impairment) so that we can do our very best to accommodate your needs.

Your opinion matters! You will be asked to complete a short feedback form either at the end of the session or after the session. We appreciate you taking the time to do this, as your feedback helps us to know what works and what doesn’t, allowing us to create a better and more relevant learning experience for everyone.

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