what to do with the feedback you've feared

As July unfolds, Reader, mid-year review season is in full swing—and I notice my coaching clients feeling the weight of both giving feedback and bracing themselves to receive it. Because sometimes, you know you've got to say hard things to good people. You can't put it off any longer. And sometimes, people have to say hard things to US (gulp). It just happened to my new-ish client T (I'll withhold her name for her privacy). T invested in professional coaching after she realized the advice and...