About this template

Giving feedback cannot always be easy. When done correctly and effectively, however, feedback can be one of the most powerful tools to help an employee develop. This template covers strategies for giving effective and constructive feedback, how to give difficult feedback, and presents a few scenarios with best practices for giving feedback.

This template covers information about:

• What is effective feedback?
• Examples of effective feedback
• How to give difficult feedback
• Best practices for giving effective feedback

This template is for:

• HR Managers
• L&D Managers
• Team leads or managers
• C-level executives
• Anyone who needs to train people about this topic

How to use and customize this template

This template on giving effective feedback covers the most universal and crucial information on this topic. We added some empty sections and question fields that you can customize to make the organization’s template relevant. If you don’t need to and want to use the template like it is now, you are free to chuck these parts. In that case, the only thing you need to do is change details like your organization’s name and the training duration.

Feel like changing the template up entirely? You are welcome to. You can change anything about the template. It’s also possible to remove sections, add new ones, add additional questions, and add different content. Keep in mind that you need to define learning objectives for each new or changed section. Our advice? Learn how our templates work, then turn it into whatever works best for you.