Calmly telling your manager what isn’t working is neither betrayal nor heroics: it’s an adult skill.
That comment you’ve been holding back for weeks? Your manager will never hear it at the coffee machine. This module shows you how to raise it with them face to face, calmly: preparation that defuses defensiveness, the words to ask for a real meeting, and a step-by-step approach so your feedback makes a lasting difference.
~20 min at your own paceKey skill: Giving and Receiving FeedbackAvailable in FR + ENNo prerequisites
What you’ll take away
- the right to disagree with your manager, without betrayal or heroics
- the question to ask before the meeting: what is my part in the situation
- the five steps of feedback to your manager, from precise facts to follow-up
Who it’s for
Team members who have feedback to give their manager, and managers who genuinely want to receive it.
Learning objectives
- Leave the one-down position: talk to your manager in an adult-to-adult relationship, without submission or aggression.
- Prepare for the meeting in three stages: acknowledge your own part, consider your manager’s reasons, and ask for a real meeting.
- Give feedback in five steps: confirm the timing, describe specific facts, listen, negotiate a change, and plan a follow-up.
- Make upward feedback a habit: give it regularly and in the moment, on what isn’t working as well as on what is.
How does this module work?
The steps of the Adaptive module.
- Self-assessmentOn nine dimensions, to gauge current habits and guide the practice.
- Expert videoA ~10 min video with three pauses for reflection.
- Practice scenariosThe first two scenarios chosen from the self-assessment, then sixteen more, optional. Every answer gets feedback: what it leads to, and one way to improve.
- Dated commitmentOne action to try, written by the learner or chosen from the suggestions.
- Memo to downloadKey takeaways, questions, commitment, personal notes, and checklists.
Duration: ~20 min. Excluding bonus practice scenarios and optional in-depth content.
