Feedback can often feel like the final verdict. “The measurement has been completed, so here’s your final grade, your performance review, your speeding ticket, your customer rating, your students’ evaluation.“ That’s one kind of feedback. But there’s a better kind.

Formative: ˈfȯr-mə-tiv; Capable of alteration by growth and development.

What a great word! Aren’t we all capable of more and better through growth and development? Formative feedback is never final and it isn’t a verdict. Formative feedback is a regular process of small but actionable touches along your journey. Each real-time touch, like a tiny thruster, makes a barely perceptible course correction fueling growth and development over time.

Formative feedback is the ideal model for career development, project management, employee engagement, educational assessments, customer experience, continuous improvement initiatives and more.

Step 1 in providing or receiving formative feedback: Simply Engage using BoxScore.