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If you can give feedback but not receive it, you’re not a leader—you’re just in charge. Real accountability means hearing the hard stuff too, even when it stings.
I ask my team constantly for feedback, how I can best support them, things I could improve on etc. It puzzles me that managers would not want to know how they're doing, it's key to the team's success and work environment.
Upward feedback isn’t performance-based, but rather leadership-based. Quite unfortunate it’s not on the same level of feedback you receive in downward feedback. It’s technically anonymous at my job, but people shy away from giving any kind of feedback this way as they feel it's a setup.
Upward feedback counts at Google. Managers can land in bottom buckets, and thus face low/no bonus or job loss if their reports give low scores on an annual manager responsibilities survey.