Topic: The Feedback Gap: What Leaders Aren't Saying--and Why Engagement Is Suffering featuring Danielle Farrell

Time: 8:30 to 10 AM

Description: Between the economy driving job reductions, record levels of employee burnout, and veteran employees leaving, leaders and organizations face challenging employee experience landscape, and employee engagement and satisfaction is hanging in the balance. Yet, feedback, one of the most effective tools leaders have to positively impact employee experience is often overlooked. In fact, employees who receive frequent feedback are up to 3.6 times more likely to be engaged and dramatically more likely to stay and perform at a high level. At the same time, a lack of feedback is directly tied to disengagement and turnover, with as many as 40% of employees becoming actively disengaged in the absence of regular feedback. This session will explore the relationship between feedback and engagement, offering actionable tools to support creating a culture of feedback on your team. 

Danielle Farrell, PhD, brings just shy of 20 years of experience in various learning and development spaces, including 15 years in k-12 education and higher ed. Her work focuses on creating meaningful learning experiences that strength communication, leadership, and employee well-being across diverse industries, including education, retail, healthcare, and insurance. 

Dr. Farrell's research and professional practice are grounded in human-centered leadership and learning design. She authored a dissertation on the impact of compassion fatigue on educators and has applied those insights in organizational settings, designing an employee development program for a midsized healthcare organization focused on reducing compassion fatigue and facilitating leadership development for the Veterans Health Administration. 

Guided by the belief that "people are our greatest asset," Dr. Farrell is passionate about designing learning experiences that foster empathy, strengthen leadership capacity, and support meaningful employee experiences and draws from her cross-industry perspective to bring this to life. 

The purpose of the Leadership SIG is to explore new possibilities, share best practices, and build relationships in order to develop your leadership ability and develop leadership capacity in others.  

The Leadership SIG meets the third Friday of each month from 8:30 – 10:00 a.m. Meetings are held virtually via Zoom. The meeting link will be sent upon registration.  The SIG is hosted by Aaron Barber (Sammons Financial Group, abarber@sfgmembers.com ) and Tony Giudicessi (ITA Group, tgiudicessi@ITAGroup.com).  If you have any questions, comments or ideas for the SIG, please connect with one of them.

Cost:  ATD Central Iowa Members  - FREE

ATD Nebraska and ATD Twin Cities - Free

  Non-members - $20