The Beatings Will Stop Once Morale Improves

You get a quick response when you use a negative feedback as your tool but that destructive experience will always cost you over the long run.

Think about the times when someone has yelled at or aggressively criticized you. How did this experience affect your relationship with that person and your long-term engagement with your team and organization? 

A relationship is fundamentally dysfunctional when one party is afraid of the other.  

In their professional lives, people can sometimes make the mistake of using negative feedback. Instead of taking the time to coach and support, they criticize and command. The damage that they cause in these moments can be immense. Sometimes ruining what was a positive relationship forever.

When people are tired, when people are impatient, when they are under a deadline it can be very hard for them to resist the temptation to go negative.  But the price for that short-term win can be very high. 

If you know someone who regularly uses negative feedback as their tool, it may be worth reminding them that long-term success is built by teams that are engaged and positive, not by those that are distracted by waiting for the beatings to stop.