I recently published an article called Active Feedback: Requesting Feedback To Meet Needs. This article is a companion article talking about a more objective form of feedback: Passive Feedback. While active feedback is great for involving people in the product development process, passive feedback should be used to validate ideas, assumptions or guesses that have been made.
By implementing passive feedback you will be able to make more informed decisions, guide others more effectively, and increase your personal effectiveness.
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There are two ways to gather feedback. You can either request feedback, which is active feedback; or you can observe what people do, passive feedback. Active and passive feedback are most useful in different situations. They have their own sets of pros and cons. However, both must be applied to make a truly informed decision.
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We’ve all been there. We have a huge list of things we need to do, and we just don’t get around to it. Maybe we spent too much time on the first thing, or maybe we simply diddled away the time frolicking about theIntertubes discovering the latest in speed reading techniques. Either way, our to do list did not shrink, and we have made far less progress on the things we thought we had decided were important.
Oops.
So how can we fix that? Today I experimented with something called timeboxing.
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Here’s a transcription of the Effective Communication podcast as presented by Brett McLaughlin (@oreillybrett). Really great talk! At some point a video will become available and I’ll update this post with a link or embed or something.
Brett talks about Motivating, Gratifying, and then Rewarding your audience in order to improve your communication techniques!
I apologize in advance for the plethora of typos 
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Allen Weiss went from being a cashier at Walt Disney to directing the worldwide Walt Disney Parks and Resorts. From Paris to Hong Kong to the Caribbean to Florida, Allen Weiss is in charge. Allen focuses on Servant Leadership, and how to live your life as a leader.
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Liz Murray has lived an incredible life. Drug addict parents. Homeless at 15. Went back to high school at the age of 18, finished four years of high school in two years, and then went to Harvard and is graduating in June this year with a degree in Pyschology. This is a woman who has overcome more obstacles in her teens than most people will ever overcome in their entire lives. Did I mention they made a Lifetime Movie about her?
Her presentation was incredibly compelling. To be honest, you have to see it for yourself. My transcript is below.
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This interview with Tony Blair is really quite amazing. It shows a very personal side of Tony Blair that is hard to capture in pure text. The good news is the video in it’s entirety is going to be on the After The Event Section of GiantImpact.com. Sweet.
Below you’ll find out what Cricket is in 20 seconds, as well as Tony Blairs thoughts on Leadership.
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This is the first half of the second session for Maximum Impact. It was primarily Kevin Carroll (@kckatalyst), followed up with an incredible interview with Tony Blair.
Kevin talked about how play impacts creativity, productivity, and how to foster that in your work environment.
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The second half of the first session was John Maxwell’s talk that was derived from his book, Put Your Dream To The Test. In it he goes over 10 questions that can help you truly achieve your dreams, as opposed to merely having them.
When I do these, I’m often struck as I look through them again at how much is lost in a transcription. There’s so much quality that is lost when I translate a presentation to text. Not even just the spelling errors! Anyway, I hope you guys get *some* value from it! Read on!
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