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Try a compliment sandwich... Sandwich the criticism between two positive statements. e.g. I like the way you did this, but I think this would work better but y

• curun1r 11y ago
  The feedback sandwich is something to be avoided. People are generally predisposed to either hear positive or negative feedback, but not both. When you give sandwiched feedback, those that easily hear positive feedback will miss the negative and those that easily hear negative feedback will miss the positive. Almost no one will hear both. Or so says the management training courses I've recently taken. Supposedly there's studies to back this up, too, though I've never read them myself.