Brag, Worry, Wonder, Bet: A Manager’s Guide to Giving Feedback by Steve King


Brag, Worry, Wonder, Bet: A Manager’s Guide to Giving Feedback
Title : Brag, Worry, Wonder, Bet: A Manager’s Guide to Giving Feedback
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ISBN : 1475968752
ISBN-10 : 9781475968750
Language : English
Format Type : Kindle Edition
Number of Pages : 68
Publication : Published April 2, 2013

Giving someone feedback can be a daunting task for a manager—especially when an employee is underperforming. To soften the blow, we sometimes refer to difficult feedback as “developmental” or “constructive.” But these phrases rarely prompt the type of productive conversations managers need to have with team members.

Steve King, a longtime executive who has held leadership roles with a variety of organizations, cuts to the chase with a simple and tested framework on providing feedback.

Think of how great it would be to break through the typical awkwardness of giving feedback and start having serious conversations about performance, development, and careers.

Regardless of your role, if you want to give feedback to others on a regular basis, you need a proven approach to improve the quality of your conversations. It starts with four simple words—Brag, Worry, Wonder, Bet.

Brag, Worry, Wonder, Bet: A Manager’s Guide to Giving Feedback Reviews

  • Scott Pearson

    Regular performance reviews are part-and-parcel of just about every managed venture. They mark successes of direct reports while charting next steps towards a future path. Unfortunately, these reviews can sometime turn into routine affairs. In this case, feedback is not always useful; worse is when it doesn’t even strike a chord but instead discourages the employee. In this short book, business professor Steve King suggests a simple method to improve conversations in performance reviews.

    As suggested in the title, King’s method is to brag about some things, worry about other things, wonder or be curious about some things, and bet on some future events transpiring. There’s really not a lot more to the book than that. Therein lies its strength… and honestly, its biggest weakness. It would be nice to have more depth to this 58-page book. Some scientific validation of the method would be nice, especially coming from a professor of executive business management.

  • BAM who is Beth Anne

    I got exactly what I came for.

    I’m looking for some new tactics to infuse into my conversations with my team. This is it.

  • Missy Muente

    I was assigned to read this for a workshop and I really enjoyed it. Great framework for professional feedback; easy to understand and nice examples.