Giving feedback is something that a lot of managers avoid because they don't feel confident doing it. Here are 3 ways to improve the way you give that crucial feedback.

One of the big struggles I see managers wrestling with is 'letting go' of things. Everything they've done up to this point is based on the actual job they do, like being a press officer, an IT engineer or a designer. But when you make that step up, it becomes less about doing that job and more about helping others to do that job.

Feedback is something that’s essential to increasing our self-awareness so we can make more positive choices about how we behave or respond to others. Whether it’s about the report we’ve written, the way we handled a meeting or the meal we just cooked. It helps us to gauge what works, what we’ve done well or what we could improve on. But often when we get feedback, we don’t hear it, or don’t want to hear it. We’re often too distracted by an emotion or the way we are reacting to it to listen properly. And in doing so, we’re missing an opportunity to be better.