Feedback is a Gift Embrace It with Adelina Chalmers

Mike speaks with Adelina Chalmers the founder of Geek Whisperers. She helps CTOs, Heads of Engineering, and others to improve team performance. In her 20s, Adelina stopped working in human rights organisations when she realised, she could help people far more by working in tech. Her mission is to transform engineers and their leaders. To do that they both need to know how to give and take feedback. Something that we are socially and biologically engineered to struggle with. Adelina explains how to unpick that and use feedback to transform our performance. KEY TAKEAWAYS Those who work in tech have an incredibly powerful impact on people´s lives. The projects we work on really move the needle. Feedback is critical. Without it, nobody knows if they are doing a great job or not. Feedback is not a personal attack. Often, for biological and social r ...