Learning Outcome: 1

Assessment criteria: 1.3

Explain the importance of giving and receiving constructive feedback to
colleagues in the workplace.
Principle of Constructive feedback Constructive feedback is providing useful comments
and suggestions that contribute to a positive outcome, a better process or improved behaviors.
It provides encouragement, support, corrective measures and direction to the person receiving
it.

Importance of constructive feedback to colleagues in a workplace: Feedback that is

constructive is vital to employees’ ongoing development.  Feedback clarifies expectations, helps
people learn from their mistakes and builds confidence. Positive feedback is easy – it’s not hard
to find the right words to tell someone they’ve done a good job, or congratulate them on
meeting a sales target. When things are going well it can be easy to become complacent about
giving praise but stopping and smelling the roses is important to build employee confidence and
encourage a culture in which employees nurture and support one another.

Impacts of Constructive Feedbacks on a workplace:

The purpose of constructive feedback is to give feedback to an individual in a way that will lead
to improvements or corrections.

 Improve employee morale

 Reduce confusion regarding expectations and current performance
 Provide a new perspective and give valuable insight to the person receiving feedback
 Positively impact an individual’s behavior
This sort of constructive feedback propagate the morality of the employee and this kind of
speech can enhance the motivation and performance in work and decrease the confusion.
Provides a new perspective and give valuable insight to the person receiving feedback and
creates a positive vibes on the behavior.
A demonstrational instance of a constructive feedback like as,
Imagine, Fayzal has been an employee at your company for three months. Lately, he seems
disengaged and not motivated to work.
A response can be:
“I have noticed that you don’t seem as motivated to do work as you usually do and it makes me
feel like I am doing something wrong. If there are reasons as to why you are feeling this way, I
would love to talk with you about it. I think if we meet up once a week to check up on
everything, you could be much happier.”