When I was in high school I was drum major of the marching band, they sent us to a week long “leadership camp” training, and this was how they recommended giving criticism. Praise-correction-praise. It can be done well, but is much more often done poorly. Basically, it’s level-1 advice that needs to be executed very well or used on an audience that isn’t really free to complain much about it, and by the time you are able to do so skill-wise, there are better methods available.
I’d say it’s level-1 advice that is better than the level-0 move of just criticizing and never praising, which is indeed a failure case people can fall into. When people notice you’re doing it or if you execute it poorly it can come off badly, though I think still better than the level-0 failure it’s meant to fix.
When I was in high school I was drum major of the marching band, they sent us to a week long “leadership camp” training, and this was how they recommended giving criticism. Praise-correction-praise. It can be done well, but is much more often done poorly. Basically, it’s level-1 advice that needs to be executed very well or used on an audience that isn’t really free to complain much about it, and by the time you are able to do so skill-wise, there are better methods available.
I’d say it’s level-1 advice that is better than the level-0 move of just criticizing and never praising, which is indeed a failure case people can fall into. When people notice you’re doing it or if you execute it poorly it can come off badly, though I think still better than the level-0 failure it’s meant to fix.