{"id":5087,"date":"2026-09-17T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/?p=5087"},"modified":"2026-08-05T12:03:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T10:03:36","slug":"chefen-som-inte-ger-negativ-feedback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/chefen-som-inte-ger-negativ-feedback\/","title":{"rendered":"The manager who avoids difficult feedback creates problems \u2014 not safety."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Det finns en typ av manager<\/a> som de flesta medarbetare verkar uppskatta \u2013 tills de f\u00e5r en avg\u00e5ngsintervju. Den som alltid \u00e4r positiv. Som aldrig kritiserar. Som l\u00f6ser konflikter genom att undvika dem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In that conversation, the employee rarely says anything about a bad manager. But they often say: I never knew where I stood. I never found out what I needed to improve.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The kind manager believed they were protecting their people. What they were actually doing was depriving them of the opportunity to grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why staying silent feels safer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Difficult feedback feels risky. What if the person feels bad about it? What if motivation drops? What if the relationship deteriorates?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those fears are human and understandable. But they belong to the manager. And letting them determine what gets said is choosing your own comfort over the employee's opportunity to develop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What feedback that works tends to contain<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is specific. \"You need to get better at communication\" is not feedback. \"In yesterday's meeting, you presented the solution before you seemed to have understood the problem \u2014 I could see it in the clients' reaction\" is feedback.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is close in time. Feedback delivered three weeks after the event is difficult to use. Feedback given the following day is actionable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It separates observation from conclusion. What you saw. What it led to. What you need instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A closing reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kindness and honesty are not opposites. The best feedback conversations I have seen are both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if you have to choose \u2014 and you do, when you stay silent \u2014 you have already chosen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you have thoughts, questions, or simply want to talk something through \u2014 feel free to get in touch. I am happy to have an initial conversation with no agenda.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Right person. Right place. Everything changes.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Managers who avoid difficult feedback often believe they're protecting their people. In practice, they're taking away their chance to grow. On feedback that actually makes a difference.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ledarskap","category-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5087"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5279,"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5087\/revisions\/5279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bymconsulting.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}