Giving feedback to a person sitting at a desk

Submitted by Marc Lawrence
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What do you do to give your people feedback when they are sitting at their desk?

I have started squatting down so I am eye level, about 2~3 feet away, to one side, and quietly talking to them.

This deals with some issues I had been having. When providing adjusting feedback I do not want it to be public. I had been standing up and talking in a regular voice for positive feedback, but we are in cubes, so this is very public. It also leaves me standing/looming over them. To give negative feedback I would have to wait till they were up and moving, which is ridiculous. Imagine a human movement detector, "are they up, ok, go go go". Lastly it meant that positive and adjust were being delivered in a different way.

I do feel a little awkward squating down, but so far it seems to be effective for both positive and adjusting feedback.

What do you do?
 

Thanks, Marc (Lawrence)

Submitted by Rob Hooft on Tuesday December 15th, 2009 3:50 pm

Mark demonstrates this at the conferences. You stand next to their desk and bend down a little. You lower your voice a bit. Very important: make sure it is not a big deal.

Submitted by Marc Lawrence on Friday December 18th, 2009 8:40 am

Ha, your right and as soon as I read it... I remembered seeing this at the conference. It must have gotten stored in my subconscious.
 
Thanks, Marc