Memory
Client instructions, firm preferences, and earlier decisions carry into the next assignment.
Read about memoryYour feedback makes the next assignment better.
Explain what you want changed and why. Your secondee can carry that instruction into later work, building a clearer picture of how your team wants things done.
Say it the way you would to an associate.
You don’t need a special format to give feedback. Tell your secondee to shorten a summary, use a different precedent, or explain a risk more clearly. The correction becomes part of the working context.
“Lead with what changed and who needs to act. Put the longer analysis underneath.”
Make the instruction fit the situation.
A preference for one client may not belong in every matter. Explain whether your feedback is for this assignment, this client, or your team’s usual approach, so later work has the right context.
“For this client, use their approved wording. For other clients, keep our standard starting point.”
Keep refining the work.
Learning builds on your review. You can correct an earlier instruction as your approach changes, and check how that guidance shows up in the next draft. Your secondee brings the work back when a judgment call needs you.
A revised playbook changes the next review’s starting point; a departure still comes to you for a decision.
One correction. A clearer next update.
Your feedbackExample
“For future updates, start with the affected clients and the action we need to take.”
Earlier structure
- Supporting detail
- Affected clients
- Proposed action
With your instruction
- Affected clients
- Proposed action
- Supporting detail
Felix
I’ll use that structure for your updates: affected clients, proposed action, then the supporting detail and sources.
Feedback shapes how the work is prepared. It doesn’t replace your review of the result.
Get to know the rest of your team.
Give your team a little more capacity.
Tell us what you’d like to hand off. We’ll help you find a starting point.