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Human Resources

Upward Feedback

June 26, 2023

Providing upward feedback can be a powerful tool for building a relationship with your manager built on mutual respect. However, giving feedback to your manager can be daunting. In this week's pearl, we will share tips for providing feedback to your manager.

Dr. Anne Hsu, Associate Professor at Queen Mary, University of London, provides six helpful tips for delivering upward feedback in the short video below.

How to Give Feedback to Your Boss: 6 Key Tips

Do you have time for more? Amy Gallo, contributing editor from Harvard Business Review provides a deep dive on why, when, and how to give upward feedback in the article, How to Give Your Boss Feedback.

As we learned feedback in May, feedback is a gift. Not providing upward feedback is a missed opportunity to help your manager grow. When done well, it can demonstrate integrity and mutual respect. 

Integrity, Accountability, and Mutual Respect is the fourth core CSUMB value and what we will explore in next month's pearls. Watch this space.