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

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.

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.

Introduction      

CHAPTER 1: Why Feedback Hurts             

CHAPTER 2: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Review   

CHAPTER 3: Receiving Feedback — Tough Skin, Tough Love or Tough       

CHAPTER 4: Giving Feedback      

CHAPTER 5: Taste Is an Unconscious Bias             

CHAPTER 6: Feedback Styles       

CHAPTER 7: Kind Collaborator

CHAPTER 8: Perfect Pass-Through            

CHAPTER 9: Vague Vocalist         

CHAPTER 10: Land Mine

CHAPTER 11: Silent but Deadly  

CHAPTER 12: DIYer         

CHAPTER 13: One and Doner      

CHAPTER 14: Rage Reviewer       

CHAPTER 15: When Style Meets Process

CHAPTER 16: The Idea Storm — Kickoff to Success            

CHAPTER 17: Project Planning    

CHAPTER 18: Creating Your Satisfaction 

CHAPTER 19: Mastering the Feedback Process    

CHAPTER 20: Preparing Others to Give Feedback              

CHAPTER 21: Gather Feedback on Your Ideas      

CHAPTER 22: Find Strength in Collaboration        

CHAPTER 23: Making Kind Review Work for You 

CHAPTER 24: The Dreaded Redo

CHAPTER 25: Surviving Group Review     

CHAPTER 27: Failure to Communicate     

CHAPTER 26: Ready for Completion         

CHAPTER 28: Perfection Is Impossible, but Collaboration Is Magic             

Index

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