Kindly Review: The Secret to Giving and Receiving Feedback to Make Your Ideas Great

by Dawn Crawford

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781394182879
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	05/02/2023
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 Why Feedback Hurts 1

Chapter 2 The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Review 9

Chapter 3 Receiving Feedback: Tough Skin, Tough Love, or Tough 17

Chapter 4 Giving Feedback 29

Chapter 5 Taste Is an Unconscious Bias 39

Chapter 6 Feedback Styles 45

Chapter 7 Kind Collaborator 53

Chapter 8 Perfect Pass-Through 61

Chapter 9 Vague Vocalist 69

Chapter 10 Land Mine 77

Chapter 11 Silent but Deadly 85

Chapter 12 DIYer 93

Chapter 13 One and Doner 101

Chapter 14 Rage Reviewer 109

Chapter 15 When Style Meets Process 117

Chapter 16 The IdeaStorm: Kickoff to Success 123

Chapter 17 Project Planning 133

Chapter 18 Creating Your Satisfaction 141

Chapter 19 Mastering the Feedback Process 149

Chapter 20 Preparing Others to Give Feedback 155

Chapter 21 Gather Feedback on Your Ideas 165

Chapter 22 Find Strength in Collaboration 175

Chapter 23 Making Kind Review Work for You 185

Chapter 24 The Dreaded Redo 197

Chapter 25 Surviving Group Review 203

Chapter 26 Ready for Completion 211

Chapter 27 Failure to Communicate 219

Chapter 28 Perfection Is Impossible, but Collaboration Is Magic 227

Acknowledgments 235

Index 237