topic: [[Feedback]] created: 2023-04-08 *Joining with the learner as the first step in feedback.* This reminds me of [[Teaming by Amy Edmondson]] as a [[learning leader]] It's kind of like [[Not what's the product but instead what's the job to be done?]] Let's [[focus on the process not the goal]] The Educational Alliance is a way of thinking about the relational aspects of the feedback conversation. " The psychotherapy literature suggests that relationship-based factors contribute significantly to changes in knowledge, identity, and behavior.44 Attributes of the supervisory relationship in medical education may be of parallel significance with respect to feedback incorporation. The “educational alliance,” derived from the psychotherapy literature’s “therapeutic alliance,”48 may offer an innovative framework from which to explore this potentially significant influence on feedback incorporation." ##### What would the opposite argument be? Just tell them what they are doing wrong, or how to fix it, in order to start the conversation with transparency. tags: #note/idea | #on/feedback | #on/team ##### Sources: Telio, S., Ajjawi, R., & Regehr, G. (2015). The “Educational Alliance” as a Framework for Reconceptualizing Feedback in Medical Education: _Academic Medicine_, _90_(5), 609–614. [https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000000560](https://doi.org/10.1097/ACM.0000000000000560)