Feedback strategies

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The two articles I read about feedback were Try Feedforward Instead of Feedback by Marshall Goldsmith and Five Reasons to Stop Saying Good job by Alfie Kohn. Both these articles talked about different things for feedback but both had the same idea of what feedback should be. Both articles sum up that feedback needs to be more than just a response but something that can be learned from. Five Reasons to Stop Saying Good Job talks more in detail on why praised and simple feedback is not great to do and how feedback should be something to learn from. To explain this children are used and it talks about how if feedback that is all just praise is used to a child their whole life then that can cause the child can turn in a "praise junkie" or ruin their sense of interest in doing things and just care for the reward thus only wanting to do stuff with a reward. The other article Try Feedforward Instead of Feedback talks about more on the reasons suggestive feedback in which is called "feedforward" helps out. In this article there are tons of reasons said on why feedforward is helpful such as how it's better to help people learn, it helps people envision a positive future instead of failed past, and how it's not taken as personally. I believe that both these articles really gave great detail for how feedback needs to allow the person getting the feedback the ability to be able improve and learn from their mistakes.