Tag: feedback
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Leave a review
Just a quick reminder: It’s okay to reach out directly to brands. Maybe you had a bad experience. Or an amazing one. Or one that was so-so. You can use the contact page on the brand website, call the phone number on your package, or leave a review. You can provide the feedback directly to…
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This one reason drives too many layoffs
We often talk about layoffs a cost cutting measure, but it could be down to one other issue. We don’t know how to give feedback. Sometimes, those rounds of layoffs are thinly disguised ways of getting rid of employees who are not up to standard. Except you may have never told them the standard in…
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Do you really want feedback?
Years ago, I had an argument. My sentiment was that it was harmful to ask for feedback if there was never an intention to use it. It was a waste of everyone’s time to do a performance collection of thoughts we’d never act on. If anything, such practices would create situations where we wouldn’t get…
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I wasn’t going to say anything
As I prepared to go to sleep in my hotel room, I thought, “Oh, I should turn off the TV.” Then I remembered it wasn’t my TV I was listening to. I had been following the cable news broadcast word for word from the TV in the room next to me. It was loud, and…
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One way to get more ideas
“You could create our next big flavor.” The possibility intrigued me. There were multiple flavors I wished the product came in, so I submitted my answers, hoping to win. I didn’t win. Then I saw the flavors chosen and the open vote to figure out which one would end up on grocery store shelves. I…
A Wren Says 