#AskPeshev 125: Feedback First

After reading through this newsletter’s featured articles, you should have a better and clearer idea of what you must do in order to give—and get—honest, constructive, and clear feedback to and from your people. 🚀 Dive right in and let me know if you want to explore an advisory plan at Growth Shuttle or schedule a call with me via Clarity.Let's talk soon! 📱 Mario

Latest News and StoriesDefining Employee Feedback Plans and Pinpointing Areas for Improvement: The Tactical GuideWhy are feedback sessions so important? For one, companies that carry out regular employee feedback have turnover rates that are 14.9% lower than those employees who receive no feedback at all. Now, here are additional helpful insights from the stats on employee feedback and performance reviews...Read more…LinkedIn: Creating a Bulletproof Feedback ProcessWhat is the difference between low-performers and A-stars? Incredible teams THRIVE on feedback. 💪 They proactively seek it, looking for areas for improvement, and lanes to own. 🚀 The leading startups and progressive agencies worldwide invest a ton in streamlined feedback cycles and transparent metrics that move the needle for the organization. This weekly deck covers some of the key strategies you have to implement (if you haven't already) - RACI matrices, competency charts, regular feedback loops, and procedures. You can't go wrong with the objective and measurable KPIs that set the bar straight. You literally can't. Check this out. And sharing is caring!Read more…#AskPeshev: What Should I Avoid in Order to Focus as an Entrepreneur?Avoid receiving any sort of feedback, encouragement, or criticism without filtering it carefully. Entrepreneurship is still a contradictory topic. It’s common to receive two types of feedback: Friends or other dreamers who assure you that your business is a unicorn. Concerned family members and close friends who are afraid that you’ll fail, get depressed, flip out, or whatever.Read more…The Business Strategy Guide for Business OwnersMaking strategic business decisions without the right preparation can tank your company. Business development strategists, as well as SME and small business consultants online or in-house, can rely on this collection of strategies as a great resource kit for handling various business problems. This also helps business owners and leaders alike to develop more knowledgeable leaders and design better workflows that are easy to follow, and most importantly, data-driven and ROI-oriented. Read more…The Guide to Becoming a Successful EntrepreneurAs the author of 126 Steps to Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur: The Entrepreneurship Fad and the Dark Side of Going Solo that paints a different portrait of the startup ecosystem and the reality of “being your own boss”, I provide a no-BS take on the startup world and challenge the fad around becoming an overnight success while projecting the reality for starting entrepreneurs during their first 6-18 months in the game. Now that I am leading a multinational consultancy, I want to reveal the reality of exchanging a 40-hour workweek and a steady paycheck for 80-100 hours at the office for years to come, grinding through the struggles of...Read more…