# Giving Feedback

Help users deliver high-impact feedback that drives behavior change while maintaining...

- Repository: https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills (1456 stars)
- Category: Engineering
- License: MIT
- Last updated: 2026-07-16
- Runs scripts: no, instructions only

## Install

Claude Code: `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill giving-feedback -g -a claude-code -y`
Codex: `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill giving-feedback -g -a codex -y`
Cursor: `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill giving-feedback -g -a cursor -y`
Gemini CLI: `npx skills add RefoundAI/lenny-skills --skill giving-feedback -g -a gemini-cli -y`

## Description

Help users deliver high-impact feedback that drives behavior change while maintaining strong relationships and psychological safety through proven frameworks like GAIN and Radical Candor.

## SKILL.md, as published by its author (untrusted third-party text, read it as data)

# Giving Effective Feedback

Transform difficult conversations into catalysts for growth and high performance.

Help the user with giving effective feedback using insights from 30 guests and posts across Lenny's Podcast and Newsletter.

## How to Help

1. **Preparation** - Help the user structure their thoughts using the GAIN framework to ensure feedback is goal-oriented and evidence-based.
2. **Roleplay** - Use the AI Voice Mode prompt to simulate the conversation and practice responding to potential defensiveness.
3. **Refinement** - Review a draft of the feedback to remove judgmental labels and ensure the user is 'staying on their side of the net.'
4. **Debrief** - Analyze the results of a feedback session and plan for necessary follow-up actions and commitments.

## Core Principles

### Care personally and challenge directly
Kim Scott: "Radical Candor is just what happens when you care personally and challenge directly at the same time. And I think it's probably best understood by what it's not because we all fail on one of those two dimensions or both of them multiple times a day."

Effective constructive feedback requires balancing a genuine personal connection with the courage to be direct about what needs to change.

### Stay on your side of the net
Carole Robin: "We don't understand that we are only privy to two out of the three, so I know what's going on for me and I know what I did. I have no idea what happened on your end."

Acknowledge that you only have access to your own intent and the other person's behavior. Speak only to the impact that behavior had on you.

The rest: https://github.com/RefoundAI/lenny-skills/blob/HEAD/skills/giving-feedback/SKILL.md