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Change your relationship with feedback
Move from threat to fierce advocacy. You’ll see what you’ve been protecting when you soften, save up or skip feedback, and what opens up when you stop.
To: the person you’ve been avoiding
I’ve been meaning to tell you
you’re capable of far more than this.
Tap the bar. Then ask how long it’s been sitting there.
Every unsaid thing is a quiet tax on trust. In two hours you’ll learn how to become a master at giving feedback that transforms the landscape of your leadership and life, and you’ll practice it until the most challenging conversations feel possible.
What it’s costing you
Silence isn’t kindness. It’s a slow leak.
Every conversation you avoid sends you a bill. It just doesn’t arrive all at once.
Personally
You stop trusting your own voice
Each time you let it slide, it gets easier to let the next one slide. You start leading around problems instead of through them.
Relationally
Distance grows where honesty used to be
At work and at home, people stop bringing you the truth, and you stop expecting it.
Emotionally
Resentment builds in the quiet
Frustration leaks out sideways, and you replay the conversation you never had long after the day is over.
Physically
Your body carries what you haven’t said
The tight jaw before the meeting. The knot in your stomach. The 2 a.m. wake‑up.
Organizationally
Problems get managed around, not solved
Meetings get polite, decisions get slow, and your best people quietly start looking elsewhere.
Where trust is built
Feedback strengthens every relationship that matters
Your team
People who know where they stand stop guessing and start owning their work.
Your peers & partners
Name the friction with a co-founder or fellow exec before it hardens into politics.
Your board & boss
Give upward feedback with confidence instead of swallowing it.
Your home
The habits travel. Listening first and saying the true thing work at the dinner table too.
Start here
When you hear the word “feedback,” do you…
Tap the ones that are true for you.
Be honest. Nobody else sees your answers.
The shift
Most of us relate to feedback as a threat. Coaches relate to it as an act of fierce advocacy: I’m telling you because I see what you’re capable of.
Change that relationship and everything downstream changes: what you say, how it lands, and whether people come back for more.
What you’ll learn
Three things that change how your team talks
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Give feedback: the Call-Forward conversation
A simple way to say the hard thing so people hear it, own it and act on it.
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Receive feedback without flinching
You’ll practice receiving feedback without deflection and avoidance.
You’ll also learn how to find the 1% truth in any feedback, the part you can choose to grow from.
In the room
70%
practice, not lecture
You’ll work in groups of three: one giving feedback, one receiving it, one observing. You’ll run the model on real scenarios, then on the actual person you’ve been avoiding.
Bring that person to mind. You’ll leave having practiced it, with a date to have it and a date to follow up.
Your trainer
Tim Hawkins
Certified Meta Performance™ Executive Coach, Trainer & Speaker
For 20 years, Tim has served leaders and teams across construction, technology, finance, sports, non-profit, real estate and government. He trains people to give feedback others can hear, act on and thank them for.
Novus Global coaches work with Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes and business leaders. Tim brings that same approach to leaders here in Colorado Springs, where he lives with his wife, Kayla, and their three sons.
- CredentialsACC, International Coaching Federation · Certified Professional Leadership Coach
- ExperienceNearly 1,000 hours of live coaching
- FirmExecutive Leadership Coach, Novus Global
- Works withOwners, executives & leadership teams
Reserve your seat
Twelve seats. One conversation you’ll finally have.
WhenThu, Dec 1011:30am – 1:30pm MT
WhereLoyal CoffeeNorthgate · 11550 Ridgeline Dr.
Investment$189Per person
Seats12Four groups of three
Register now · $189 ↗
Register and pay securely through Square. Once you’re in, you’ll get access to the prep site to get ready for the session.
Who is this for?
Anyone carrying a conversation they know they need to have. The one you rehearse in the shower, push to next week, and quietly pay for every day you don’t have it. If you’re done paying, this is for you.
What’s the ROI on this training?
Start with what the silence is costing you now. For leaders Tim has coached, finally having these conversations has saved tens of thousands of dollars, saved relationships, and helped them accomplish more in half the time while enjoying the work more. The unspoken conversation has an ROI too. It’s likely not the one you really want.
Will I have to role-play?
Yes, in a group of three, with clear roles and a short checklist. It’s the fastest way to make the model yours, and everyone is in the same seat.
What should I bring?
One real person you need to talk to, and the willingness to finally have that conversation.