“Feedback Strategies”

 The first reading that I chose was called "The mirror".  This article describes the mirror effect which is trying to grow a persons mindset by giving them feedback. It describes how a mirrors job is to reflect without ang judgement. It says "with a fixed mindset comes resistance to work hard or put in extra effort as there is no point". How saying feedback in the correct way can how improve a persons work. 

There are 5 different qualities of feedback that help develop growth mindset. 

1. To be specific, Step out they different steps that the person has done. 
2. Focus, Focus on what the person is doing, not pointing out all of their mistakes that they have made. 
3. Focus of process, Focus on the work that the person has done and the effort that they have put into it.
4. Transfer , Making sure it can transfer, without giving negative or specific feedback on where gone wrong, say it in a way that is not negative but they know how to improve 
5. 
   Take yourself out, To not use words such as "I think " or " I like how " as it is about pleasing people not feedback. Instead to use "When you". This is the most difficult step according to the paper.   

The next article was "The trouble with Amazing: Giving praise that matters"  by Jennifer Gonzalez. She describes her experience of being called amazing and how she felt that it is not really a word to use when praising someone, as she describes that she wasn't doing anything and was given "you ladies' are amazing". she says "she didn't feel motivated or amazing". She then describes how it in unspecific, that when using the word amazing, how is it amazing ? what is the person doing right to be given the word. Another reason not to use it as "it praises the person and not the effort"