Giving & Receiving Feedback as a Tech Leader

Most feedback can fall into different buckets:

• Too vague without recalling specific enough examples, which doesn’t create discussion and difficult to get the other person to make any changes

• Lots of positive and not enough negative comments that don't change anything

• Not structured and clear as to what the other person should do

This 2-hour online workshop gives you a structured model for delivering feedback that’s specific, actionable, and actually drives behaviour change and action, plus techniques for receiving feedback without taking it too personally.

The Problem

Tech leaders avoid feedback until it becomes a performance issue or they start to see it affecting their team’s work and culture. Feedback is a powerful tool. It’s an opportunity to have a conversation and explore what behaviours you want to see more of and what’s not working well.

When feedback is given without thought and a plan, it reduces trust, you don’t move forwards with your team, and frustration builds up as the expectations aren’t clear.

Who This Is For

• Engineering managers giving feedback to direct reports for the first time

• Tech leads navigating peer feedback without positional authority

• Staff engineers mentoring juniors who need structured, honest guidance

• Senior engineers stepping into leadership and realising “just be direct” isn’t a strategy

What You’ll Walk Away With

• Understanding the different types of feedback and how they produce different effects

• How to delivery feedback that's specific and actionable without triggering defensiveness using the SBIBI model

• Preparing for the conversation to structure your session and get your mindset in the right place

• Techniques for making feedback resonate, and how to handle feedback you disagree with

• Practice exercises with Andrew and the group

How It Works

• 2-hour live online session (Zoom)

• Teaching block on models and frameworks, then real practice in group activity

• You’ll leave with the Actionable Feedback Worksheet to use in your next feedback conversation

• AMA (ask Andrew anything) time

About Andrew Murphy

Andrew is a geek and tech leadership educator. Andrew has led and grown engineering teams in start-ups and enterprises. He’s had hundreds of feedback conversations (both the good and the ones he got wrong before figuring out what actually works). He now runs tech leadership workshops to bridge the gap between tech and people leadership.

Details

• September 3, 2026

• Time:

  • 🇺🇸 1pm - 3pm PDT

  • 🇺🇸 2pm - 4pm MDT

  • 🇺🇸 4pm - 6pm EDT

• Where: Online (Zoom link will be sent separately)

For more tech leadership workshops, visit andrewmurphy.io