Feedback and Massage Therapy
I am an instructor for a massage therapy program. The majority of courses in the program are "hands-on". This offers a massive amount of opportunity for providing constructive feedback to students on technique, body mechanics and client care. In a "hands-on" course setting, the behavioral typology chart is totally up my ally. I anticipate incorporating this useful guide when offering student performance feedback.
Jamie, I completely agree with you. I too am an instructor in a massage therapy department, and I am "learning" that perhaps my method of teaching hands on leans toward being too critical and less positive with my feedback.
I am definitely going to incorporate less criticism in my future feedback, and will also work on doing more scheduled evaluations so that it doesn't appear that I am only offering opportunistic negative feedback.
