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Managers are often so awkward and emotional in their feedback delivery that it lands like an attack on employees' character, but practising self-feedback might help them change, an executive coach says.

"Often as managers, we let things build up. We're not really good at giving feedback and catching people doing things right... We avoid giving feedback until we've had enough and so often our emotion gets caught up in that," says Vare founder Jade Green.

But when managers are emotional, what tends to happen is "we're verbal vomiting", Green tells HR Daily. "We're saying what we want to say to get it off of our chest and because we want something done, and it can sometimes be direct or sometimes a bit blunt..."