GSBS Webinar: Giving and Receiving Feedback

In the Feb 3rd workshop, participants will understand and practice with a model that can help in navigating difficult conversations where giving or receiving feedback is involved.

Key topics addressed in this workshop

Why is it so hard to give and receive feedback?
How can we make it easier?
What’s an effective model that works for feedback?
What does it sound like (small group breakouts to experiment with the model)
How could you use this model with your lab?
What’s your next step around giving and receiving feedback?

Presented by Wende Gaikema

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Wende Gaikema-Bio

Wende is an executive and leadership coach who helps leaders develop their business and their people. Wende’s work includes executives and leaders building skills in leadership presence, EQ, influential communication, change management, personal and team effectiveness. As a trainer and facilitator, she teaches coaching skills to coaches and leaders while she also facilitates team workshops on leadership skills and EQ development. Her clients range include Fortune 100 companies, business owners and a variety of leaders.

Through Rice’s Doerr Institute for New Leaders and University of Texas - Austin, Wende also coaches emerging leaders on growing emotional intelligence to achieve breakthrough results. Two of Wende’s Rice clients are featured in this video discussing their coaching results.

She is credentialed through the International Coach Federation and holds certifications in leadership, career and brain-based coaching as well as in emotional intelligence.

Wende draws on her MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and professional background at Procter & Gamble working in brand management, sales, and operations as well as extensive experience in nonprofit and board leadership. Wende has an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Vanderbilt University.

Connect with her on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/wendegaikema/