Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

Effective Feedback Mechanisms

By : Amare SirawEmail: amareyhun@yahoo.com

June 13, 2013

Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

What is Feedback

• Process(two-way flow) in which the effect or output of an action is 'returned' (fed-back) to modify the next action or not

• can be used as a way of giving help

Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

Feedback…

• It is part of communication

• lack of feedback can lead to frustrated customers, unmotivated employees and a negative corporate culture

Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

Feedback…

• Feedback phase is initiated by the receiver or sender

• Receiver decides what message to send to the original sender

• Feedback eliminates misunderstandings, ensures that messages are correctly interpreted

Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

Developing Effective Feedback Skills

• Focus on specific issues• Keep feedback impersonal• Keep feedback goal oriented• Make feedback well timed• Ensure understanding• Direct feedback toward specific issue that is

controllable by the recipient

Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

How to Receive Effective Feedback

• Ask probing and clarifying questions

• Avoid reacting and becoming defensive to feedback you receive

• Take ownership of the feedback and reflect on it

• Decide if and how you can grow from the feedback

• Say “Thank You” to the person giving the feedback

Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

Thank You

Agricultural Growth Program- Livestock Market Development

 

Group work activity: Feedback Mechanism• What concerns do you have about the interaction within LMD project? What we do to improve these?

• How is it important to establish feedback mechanism to LMD project?

• What kind of feedback mechanism shall LMD project needs to use within inter and intra IRs, IPs