All core values
Growth
Openness to feedback
Treating critique as information rather than threat — and making it easy to give you.
Behaviors
- Asks for specifics after praise
- Thanks people for hard input
- Changes something visible after feedback
Anti-patterns
- Defending before understanding
- Feedback only flowing downward
- Punishing the messenger later
Reinforce it with
- Upward feedback in 1:1s
- Leaders sharing their own critiques
- Follow-up on what changed
Openness to feedback is the fastest cheap way an org gets smarter.