Tips for Effective Use

Avoid long, descriptive explanations and break things down with simple analogies. Use analogies based around common knowledge or things you know your audience would be knowledgeable about.

Simplify and summarise concepts when learning. If you are able to explain in simple terms or using analogies to a 12-year-old, then you have truly mastered the subject.

• Be Specific;
• Be Immediate: you wait too long, it can have less impact and make it harder for the person to grasp exactly what needs changing;
• Tie Feedback to Goals: it gives the receiver a clear goal to work towards and reason why you’ve given them this f...