A Tip for Giving Powerful Inspiring Feedback
By: Sonia Di Maulo, Feedback Enthusiast
![MPj04436170000[1]](http://readytofeedback.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/MPj044361700001-200x300.jpg "MPj04436170000[1]") Have you ever received positive, inspiring feedback in your life? How did this feedback make you feel?
TIP – Feed these feelings forward:
Help someone else feel like this. Give someone positive, inspiring feedback in the coming week. Repeat.
I am collecting 100 49 6-word stories on how powerful, inspiring feedback made you feel. Why? To inspire others to recreate these powerful motivating feelings in others.
Let your feelings guide your 6-word selection.
Share your story by adding it to this blog post as a comment.
Here are two 6-word stories to get your thinking started!
• Warm inside, glowing outside, positively charged – Danielle Ellis
• Anything is possible. Remember to breathe – Janet Pelly • 1_______ 2_______ 3_______ 4_______ 5_______ 6_______ – YOU
Idea inspired by Janet Pelly – check out her blog If Not This – Then What You will find six-word stories on the experience of being in (or through) career transition. _________________ Sonia Di Maulo is a Feedback Enthusiast, Professional Speaker and Performance Improvement Consultant. Current mission: Helping people to offer and ask for powerful inspiring Feedback. Are you ready? She would love to hear from you… share your feedback stories and successes! |
December 5, 2009
Tags: feed forward, feeling, inspire, powerful inspiring feedback, stories Posted in: Feedback Tips
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21 Responses
Negative feedback, positive intent, enriches development.
by: David Zinger
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Positive feedback inspires, encourages, gives confidence.
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Felt it inside, heart then head. – Roy Saunderson
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31 Wonderful Submissions from the Employee Recognition Community! http://www.employeerecognitioncommunity.com
It’s great to give AND receive! – Peter Hart
Heartfelt Praise Puts Wind in Sails – David J Kovacovich
25 stories by S. Max Brown
1. Life is good. I can serve.
2. Hope breathes life into my work.
3. Feeling good, I become other focused.
4. Inspired by kindness, I do more.
5. Engaged, cooperative, teamwork brings great results.
6. Trust is built conversation by conversation.
7. Knowing where I stand today — priceless.
8. Anxiety goes away when you share.
9. Relationship established, now I can work.
10. Recharged, renewed, reinvigorated, refocused! Thank you.
11. Your greatest gift: words that lift.
12. Why appreciate me? Because you matter.
13. How do I serve? Love more.
14. Why me? You are perfectly appropriate.
15. Perfect? No. But I’ll give everything.
16. Can we all do more? Yes!
17. Celebrate today to recharge for tomorrow.
18. Being human is a gift — appreciate.
19. Words define: Treat me respectfully — please.
20. I want to do good work.
21. Humbled, I listen and ask questions.
22. We all need to feel important.
23. Self-esteem boosts performance, ego destroys it.
24. If you don’t give feedback: LEARN.
25. My charge is clear: Let’s ROLL!
Encoraged to give to someone else. – Shelly Constantinescu
3 stories by Jeff Sack
1. BREATHE Be Yourself Refresh Enjoy Exhale
2. Be Yourself Refresh Enjoy Take Time
3. Enjoy Take Time Help Others Exhale
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Feeling valued and validated benefits us.
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Share talents, skills, time – this Holiday!
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Hi Jeanne and Jesse!
Thank you for sharing your stories… Wonderful stories. Help others feel this way and uplift them with your powerful, inspiring gifts of feedback!
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Trust your instincts, learn to laugh
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Wow, my contributions are valued, recognized
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Hi Tony and Margaret!
I knew doing this exercise was going to be fun. With every new story I feel more and more inspired. How have you been able to inspire those around you after submitting your stories?
Please continue to spread the word… 40 stories to go!
Sonia
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Love all that you are doing – Sonia Di Maulo (inspired by Lara Fordis at http://www.suggestionguru.com)
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The best gift to give: forgiveness.
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I’ve been reading your tips etc. which has been very helpful in assessing a whole range of things.
As I mentioned I didn’t get a lot of positive feedback growing up. At retirement age it’s still haunting me. What
I’ve come to see is that the feedback doesn’t have to be verbal. It can come in the form of how you
are treated. My mother did everything for me. Which communicated to me; you can’t do anything
for yourself. Results were that I had a very difficult time, learning things the hard way without any
idea of why life was so hard.
On the positive side the struggle has made me stronger in some ways and has forced me to overflow
the wine of my life on others; under the pressure of “hard times”. Only when I look back can I see it.
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Have you ever received positive, inspiring feedback in your life? How did this feedback make you feel?
People hear me. I have purpose.
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Validation. My message is worth sharing! (inspired by Geoff Crane http://papercutpm.tumblr.com/)
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This one from my 6-year-old.
It feels happy. Like chocolate cake. – Joel Stevens
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Encouraged people encourage people every day!
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But can I do it again? – Molly Walker
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I knew I could do anything. – Jessica Bernstein
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Excited for the future, inspired, warm. – Judi Clark
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Valued, strong, hopeful, ready to excel! – Earl Gray
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