TJ Walker explains how to give effective constructive criticism: build a meaningful connection by asking about the colleague's concerns, strengths, weaknesses, and goals; share relevant personal experience to normalize learning; offer one genuine positive observation; and give focused, single-point criticism paired with a concrete, actionable tip for improvement.
What's the best way to give constructive criticism feedback to a colleague? Well, it's not just the old tell them something nice one criticism and something nice again. That's okay as far as it goes but you have to have a meaningful connection. You need to really find out what are their concerns. What do they think they're great, weak. Where do they want to improve and then share with them. Maybe you had the same problem earlier in your career. Let them know nobody's born knowing how to do this this. Then you can tell them one thing, they're doing well. Now for the criticism part, it's critical that you don't just say well you're coming across too youthful and then go to the next thing and list 10 things. No Focus on one specific thing you think they aren't doing as well as they could. Then give them one specific tip on how you think they can improve. That's the way to do it.
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