How to Give Feedback if Your Office Dog is a Millennial

Congratulations! By deciding to give your office dog performance feedback, you’ve made the pivotal first step in developing your office dog’s career. In our first guide, we discussed ways to approach the feedback and review process by giving examples of how to frame discussions and ways to initiate conversations. But there’s something very important that we failed to give you advice on.

On top of everything millennials are ruining, they can’t seem to take feedback like all of the other, better generations once could. And if you think this only applies to humans, well, you’re just wrong. This applies to your millennial office dogs, too.

First, you need to know that your millennial office dog is very concerned with your perception of them. In order to ease their worries, be sure you are giving instant, consistent, and constructive feedback on a regular basis. Leaving them in the dark about their performance will cause them to be distracted and in a constant state of panic, which diminishes their productivity and overall performance.

Positive reinforcement is the best way to coach your millennial office dog, but don’t be afraid to offer improvement feedback.

Your millennial office dog will assume that they are right in all of their actions, so it’s important to give this feedback in order to course correct and ensure they are aware that they don’t in fact know everything.

The most important thing about coaching millennial dogs is making sure they think your feedback was their idea. Coaching, instead of resolving, will help your office dog work through some of their behaviors on their own, which will help them later on in their careers.

Millennials grew up in a time where everyone was praised for just showing up — hence the “participation trophy” reference. Because of this, it can be difficult to engage them and increase their productivity. In order to be the best millennial dog manager, you will need to show constant recognition and praise.

Praise is like air to Millennials — they can’t live without it, so be sure to “ABP” (always be praising).

Whether it’s verbal, or through a tool like Reflektive’s Real-Time Feedback, your Millennial dogs’ retention rate will go through the roof if you remember to show appreciation and recognition for their efforts.

We hope this was helpful in navigating the complicated world of managing millennials. Stay tuned for future advice on office dogs and office humans.

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