Among my pet peeves from the conventional wisdom playbook about management, the “feedback sandwich” is at the ... then say something nice again. This model is well intended.

Have you ever used the “sandwich approach” to give negative feedback to your direct reports? You sandwich the negative feedback between two pieces of positive feedback. It’s a common method ...

but in many cases the “sh*t sandwich” feedback model is just that – sh*t. What is the sandwich approach? It’s sandwiching negative feedback between two positive points. A slice of praise ...

feedback which may have been delivered via a “shit sandwich,” where negative feedback was packaged between two layers of positivity. (It’s alternately known as a “praise sandwich” which ...