Practicing Giving and Receiving Feedback
This session is hosted by Ananda Valenzuela, in partnership with Resilience Initiative and Leadership Learning Community.
Ananda Valenzuela (any pronouns) provides interim executive director leadership, facilitates organizational transformation, and coaches values-aligned leaders. He is passionate about nourishing joyful organizational cultures, supporting equitable self-management, and building liberatory practices. They have served as interim executive director at multiple organizations, provided capacity-building support to nonprofits for over ten years, and currently sit on the boards of Change Elemental and Hampshire College. Ananda grew up in Puerto Rico and slowly made her way across the United States, holding a variety of consulting, governance, and activist roles along the way.
Session Recap
This is an interactive session in which participants were paired in role-play sessions and practiced a real-life situation in which they needed to provide some challenging feedback.
Learning Outcomes:
- Understand effective approaches to giving and receiving feedback.
- Access hands-on feedback tools to bring back to the workplace.
- Practice a real-life situation where you need to give challenging feedback