How to give difficult feedback at work
The situation
A teammate has been missing deadlines and it's affecting the whole project.
The goal
Give a peer hard feedback without breaking the working relationship.
Draft (the wrong way)
So I don't want to be annoying but you've been kind of dropping things lately and it's stressing me out.
Parse-optimized draft
Can we grab 15 min today? I've noticed the last two deliverables slipped past their dates, and it's putting me in a tough spot with [stakeholder]. Want to understand what's going on and figure out how we get back on track together.
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