FROM CRITIQUE TO IMPACT

Transforming Feedback for Lasting Growth and Reflection

Traditional feedback often falls short—it can lack clarity, be ineffective, or even create tension rather than support growth. On top of this, our brains are wired to perceive feedback as a potential threat, triggering resistance and discomfort instead of fostering openness and learning. The 5 C’s of Reflective Feedback—Capacity, Capability, Clarity, Circumstance, and Compassion—offers a new approach, helping managers and team members move beyond surface-level feedback to conversations that cultivate self-awareness, address overlooked factors, and create meaningful, lasting growth. 

This workshop shifts feedback from a transactional exchange to a shared process of reflection, connection, and growth. By exploring reflective questions and understanding the neuroscience behind feedback resistance, participants will develop strategies to overcome common barriers, strengthen relationships, and create a culture of learning, trust, and shared accountability.  

Who this program is for:

Ideal for managers and team members who want to cultivate self-awareness, improve performance, and create a supportive learning culture. Whether preparing to give or receive feedback, addressing performance challenges, or reflecting on lessons learned from a project, this workshop provides practical, science-backed techniques to transform feedback into a tool for connection and growth. 

What you’ll gain:

Strengthen Self-Awareness: Identify blind spots and overlooked factors that impact how you give and receive feedback and assess performance (your own and others’) 

Holistic Feedback: Use the 5 C’s framework to reflect on past feedback and prepare for future growth. 

Science-Based Insights: Understand the biological and psychological factors that can make feedback challenging—and how to navigate them. 

Stronger Relationships: Foster mutual trust and deepen connections by integrating compassion and self-awareness into feedback. 

A Framework for Growth and Performance: Using the 5 Cs of Reflective Feedback—Capacity, Capability, Clarity, Circumstance, and Compassion—develop techniques to foster an environment of trust, self-awareness, and mutual accountability, making feedback a shared practice that strengthens teams. 

What to expect:

Two-Hour Workshop: This interactive session blends reflective exercises, neuroscience insights, and practical techniques to help participants shift feedback from transactional and tense to thorough and transformational. Participants will: 

  • Learn why feedback is often challenging, uncovering the neuroscience behind resistance and how to overcome it. 

  • Practice science-backed techniques to regulate their nervous system for more productive, open conversations. 

  • Apply the 5 C’s of Reflective Feedback to foster trust, learning, and shared accountability. 

Outcomes:

Overcome resistance for meaningful feedback.