Discussions

Your Name and Title: Yvonna Sarkees, UoPeople Peer Assessment Office Mentor, Public Servant

School or Organization Name: UoPeople

Co-Presenter Name(s):

Area of the World from Which You Will Present: Canada

Language in Which You Will Present: English. Questions in French and Polish are encouraged –time permitting.

Target Audience(s): All

Short Session Description (one line):

Feedback-a breakfast of champions--are you doing your part for the global betterment of All?

Full Session Description (as long as you would like):

Come and learn about feeding your brain and your heart by skillfully accepting and providing feedback to others.

Feedback management belongs in a global competence skill set.  Feedback needs to be skillfully delivered as well as received to ensure that it is effective, culturally adjustable and leads to sustainable growth.  In order to do that we all need to make feedback our breakfast, lunch and dinner…Frequent, normalized feedback delivered and received with well-developed Emotional Intelligence supports global development on every level. Are you doing your part?

F.e.e.d.b.a.c.k--there must be a reason why feedback has so many food connotations everywhere- in daily life, private and not for profit affairs, school, business and academic environments. There must be! The question is: are you doing your part as often as you are nourishing your body? If not, why not? After all, the nourishment stemming from our own management of food for thought and heart-warming food is as important as any other nutrition.. It should be solid, sustainable, healthy, timely and leading to growth.

Feeding back for improvements and innovation, breakfast of champions—who has not heard these expressions? If you are still wondering how much solid feedback skills are a necessity in our global environment and how to improve your skills in receiving and providing feedback, think no more..J

Just show up virtually to learn with others how to hone your feedback skills. Not criticising that reflects the past, not sharing comments that pertain to the here and now--just the full, future-based feedback delivered with Emotional Intelligence--based on the past, rooted in the present and delivered for the global, better future.

And no, you do not need to be physically hungry to attend this session..a curiosity and willingness to apply feedback concepts to increase global skills will suffice. Although a hunger for fun while learning will not be out of placeJ

Developing leaders with global competencies starts with developing growth-related skills. One of these skills includes feedback management. Feedback management for global competencies feature skills in diversity awareness as well as giving and receiving feedback with emotional intelligence. Three distinguishable parts accompany any feedback: preparation, delivery and learning (including growing awareness). We will look at the three factors while using examples from all over the world.  

There is no doubt that:

Implementing the wrong leadership feedback strategy or no strategy at all can mean loss of effectiveness, happiness and slowed or incomplete outcomes.  These negative impacts apply to organizations as well as individuals.  The problem is: if we do not know what we are missing, how can we assess the missing parts? These days everyone needs to have a solid feedback framework to ensure learning and effective functioning.  Don’t have one that is aligned with your values and belief system? Come along!

We will take a dive into issues of feedback for global competencies.  This will mean a steady focus on the different strategies available to today's leaders (read: all of us)-no matter where and who they are. Feedback skills are contagious. Come and find out how to spread the particles of feedback for everyone’s benefit.

During this event, you will learn:

• strategies for assessing feedback skills on individual and collective (academic) levels
• three simple but effective models to choose from to help deliver effective and kind feedback anywhere, anytime, to anyone
• tips for learning from any feedback-even incomplete or wrong

 So, are you in?
Are you still wondering about feedback giving and receiving? Are you thinking about differences between a reaction to feedback and a solid response that leads to learning? Are you well placed to know the difference between the here and now and tomorrow; between criticising and providing feedback for improvement leading to development of global skills?

Or, are you still eating chocolate bar for breakfast or skipping it altogether and feeling the pain after? After all, feedback is as essential as food, and what you eat and when matters.

This is one occurrence where by feeding your needs you might be helping others develop global competence because they could grow on your feedback comments. Feedback needs us all, and we also need it to keep developing at the rate required by today’s world.

This session is based on Yvonna Sarkees’ facilitating and coaching experience as well as research designing feedback workshops to employees in the private sector (including International Languages programs, a variety of not for profit organizations) as well as public servants. Yvonna’ s present audience also includes students of UoPeople University where she presently volunteers managing the Peer Assessment Office that exclusively deals with the issues of academic assessment and peer feedback.  A special invitation is hereby issued to all UoPeople students. Come All!

Special emphasis will be put on virtual/remote environments, self-management, and organizations dealing with change management challenges.

Websites / URLs Associated with Your Session: will be provided at the session