Feedback

Going ahead with my penchant for adapting management principles in life outside the corporate world, my next source of inspiration are feedback forms. To the uninitiated, they are a medium for gauging and improving standards in any organization. Actually, it’s a questionnaire that one has to fill after attending each training session with child-like questions. After filling as many as I have, you run out of new and innovative adjectives to describe the dull and dreary set of questions.

Imagine their utility in relationships. A sample form might go like this :

Relationship evaluation form

Name of participant:
Type of relationship:
Length of relationship:

For those currently in a relationship:

• What aspects of the relationship do you find most useful?

• What aspects of the relationship are least helpful to you and why? (if any)

• What were your objectives when beginning the relationship?

• To what extent have they been fulfilled?

• Suggestions/ideas for improvement

For those exiting a relationship:

• What aspects of the relationship did you find most useful and why? (if any)
  

• What aspects of the relationship are least helpful to you?
  

• What were your expectations when beginning the relationship?

• To what extent have you been disappointed?

• How do you plan to operationalise the learning in the next six months?

• Suggestions/ideas for improvement

* Feedback on this post is welcome !!