How I learned about Feedback

What is feedback anyway? I looked it up and found this to be rather descriptive, accurate and short. “The return of information about the result of a process or activity” – The Free Dictionary, April 2009 Early fall 2007 I participated in a workshop Esther Derby and Diana Larsen held. It’s called ‘Secrets Of Agile Teamwork’ and is by the way an excellent workshop, which I can highly recommend. One of the things that really stuck from those three days was the discussions, the information and the exercises we did about feedback. Partly because the exercises felt rather uncomfortable at times and partly because it changed my perspective on feedback. Providing feedback I remember one part of the workshop in particular where we were supposed to deliver and receive feedback from a script. We were reading from a piece of paper. In spite of this I felt totally out of my comfort zone. Later when...