Overview
In your role as a speech pathologist, you regularly provide feedback to clients, families, students, and colleagues. When feedback is delivered effectively, it builds trust, supports growth, and improves outcomes. When it’s handled poorly, it can create defensiveness, confusion, or disengagement.
In this course, you learn practical, evidence-informed strategies for delivering clear, constructive, and compassionate feedback. You explore how to prepare for feedback conversations, structure your message so it focuses on observable behaviors, and guide discussions toward meaningful next steps. You also learn how to respond when feedback conversations become emotionally charged or do not go as planned.
By the end of this course, you are better equipped to approach feedback with confidence, empathy, and professionalism - strengthening your relationships and supporting positive change.
Learning objectives
Upon successful completion of this module, participants should be able to:
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Differentiate between reinforcing and redirecting feedback and identify when each type is appropriate in clinical and professional settings.
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Prepare for a feedback conversation by clarifying your purpose, key observations, and desired outcomes.
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Deliver feedback that is specific, behavior-focused, and objective, avoiding language that targets personality or character.
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Use a structured feedback process to communicate observations, explain impact, set expectations, invite perspective, and define actionable next steps.
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Respond effectively to difficult reactions such as silence, defensiveness, emotional distress, reluctance to commit, or anger while maintaining professionalism and empathy.
This learning module will take approximately 1 hour to complete.
Who is this for?
This course is suitable for professionals and students working in clinical, educational, healthcare, corporate, community, or private practice settings who want to strengthen their skills in delivering effective, compassionate, and professional feedback. It is also relevant for individuals in supervisory, mentoring, teaching, or leadership roles who regularly provide performance or developmental feedback to students, team members, assistants, or colleagues.
Author
This course was developed by Articulate.
Additional course features
Want to explore the topic in a speech pathology context, or discuss the topic with your colleagues? Reflective and discussion-based questions have been embedded to guide team conversations or personal reflection.
Pricing
Members: $19
Non practicing members: $12
Student members: $8
Non-members: $28