A Manager's Guide to Tough Feedback

Giving tough feedback sucks. Avoiding it is worse.

The short-term awkwardness of being direct is nothing compared to the long-term pain of unclear expectations and problems that snowball.

This guide gives you three things:

1. A pre-conversation game plan to help your feedback land and stick
2. The PREP framework for the actual feedback so you don't go off track or soften your feedback
3. An AI prompt to practice before the real thing