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Feedback Strategies

I liked this week’s readings. I chose to read to “Be a Mirror” by Gravity Goldberg and “Try Feedfoward Instead of Feedback” by Marshall Goldsmith. In Goldberg’s reading, I found that the article was implementing the idea of providing feedback that would better the person’s mindset and help them in the future and even in their daily life. I liked the five qualities of feedback: Be specific, focus on what the reader is doing, focus on the process, make sure it can transfer, and take yourself out of the feedback. The one I felt was the most interesting was the “take yourself out of the feedback” because it’s the removal of oneself and making it personal by using the person’s name. If you allow yourself to see yourself as the student, you can provide better feedback that will change them and their mindsets. 


“Try Feedfoward Instead of Feedback” by Marshall Goldsmith states:  
There is a fundamental problem with all types of feedback: it focuses on the past, on what has already occurred—not on the infinite variety of opportunities that can happen in the future. As such, feedback can be limited and static, as opposed to expansive and dynamic (Goldsmith).
I find this to be very accurate. The idea of feedforward allows someone to give suggestions for future references. I find this more useful because it will help better my writing not just for one task but for many other tasks. The concept they use to make sense of it is: we can change the future. We can’t change the past.And this is spot on! I really like this article.


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  1. AmberMarch 8, 2019 at 10:44 AM

    Hi Samuel! I really enjoyed reading this blog of yours. I agree that the statement is true. I am going to look for this article and read it, it sounds interesting and provides good suggestions. Feedback is important and a great way to change the future. I have had some feedback that was negative and I didn’t agree with but in the future, I did think about it and changed, which proved to be positive. Great job!

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