Crucial Learning research shows that across corporate America, performance discussions are one-sided.
When it comes to sharing critical performance feedback, managers can speak freely with their direct reports, but direct reports don’t dare share feedback with their managers. And they have lots of it.
Researchers asked 1,335 employees to disclose their boss’ significant weakness one that everyone knows and discusses covertly to each other, but not directly with their manager. Asking the question was like opening the flood gates on managers behaving badly.