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Oct 2024
28m 15s

Soliciting Feedback from Your Admin: Coa...

ELENA AGUILAR
About this episode
We spend most of our waking hours at work. With that level of investment, we better make sure that what we’re doing is working, but too often, we just hope for the best. In this episode, Elena demonstrates how to effectively lead a feedback conversation with an administrator. It also includes a debrief discussing the conversation's dynamics and the significa ... Show More
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