Chris Pond

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439 appearances 15 recordings 5 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 10 Aug

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Learning English For Work · Office English: Feedback · 22 Jun 2026 podcast

Yeah, I sometimes think feedback can sometimes be a bit emotional, can't it?

And not that constructive.

It doesn't tell you what you actually need to do.

someone's reaction to it.

So today we'll talk about how to give feedback that can be easily understood and how to make sure your feedback doesn't offend anyone.

I think it's often important to try to phrase your criticism from your perspective as a reader.

So you might say, I was a bit confused by something, if it's a little bit hard to understand.

You could also say, I'm not sure if I follow your reasoning here.

And follow means understand.

And reasoning is like the way you explain your arguments and why you think they're correct.

Right.

the best kinds of feedback as feedback that helps you to improve.

So it recognizes the things that were good, but also it's very specific about what you can do to make something better and what you can do to do it better next time.

You can use things like track changes often in a document that will show little typos and errors, but then sometimes you can add a comment to explain if something you think is wrong or is not the right way to do something.

But also you can explain why sometimes, depending on the situation and the relationship you have with the person you're giving feedback to.

Because there can be different kinds of feedback, can't there?

can be things where something is just wrong or it's not going to work.

But there can also be, actually, here's a different way of doing it and just giving an opinion about it, which maybe you decide to take on or decide not to take on.

Let's talk about another situation.

This time you're in a meeting and some colleagues are presenting an idea that they've been working on.

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