6 Reasons Feedback Matters

We often think of feedback during the performance review process that happens once a year. In reality, feedback should be top of mind all year long.

Whether you spend most of your time on the floor providing patient care, are a hybrid employee balancing work time between a Carilion facility and offsite, or you are a remote employee working full time offsite, everyone needs feedback to improve individual performance and achieve our career and organization’s goals.

Here are six ways giving and receiving feedback helps you and our workplace.

1. Feedback keeps everyone on track.

Giving feedback (without judgement or anger) helps your peers know where they are meeting expectations and opportunities for growth.  

2. Feedback creates better relationships.

Being willing to give and receive open and honest feedback helps resolve problems before conflict arises.

3. Feedback helps to avoid mistakes. 

Open channels for feedback, like using our feedback tool, help to improve productivity and prevent major mistakes.

4. Feedback improves personal and professional growth.

Feedback gives you a chance to see yourself differently and understand how others perceive you. A study by Harvard Business Review found that 57% of people prefer feedback to pure praise and 72% of employees want feedback so they can improve performance.

5. Feedback increases engagement.

It’s easy to become disengaged with our work and even our workplace when we don’t receive feedback, so it’s important to give and ask for feedback.

6. Feedback gives your manager useful information.

Peer feedback is a part of FY24 performance reviews and is collected throughout the year using the feedback tool in Cornerstone. The feedback you give and receive provides managers a good picture of successes and improvement opportunities at review time.

Review this previous article for a refresher on using the feedback tool in Cornerstone to give and request feedback. 

Talk with your manager if you have questions about feedback.