{
  "title": "Corrective feedback: what actually helps people improve",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/feedback-correctif-ce-qui-aide-vraiment-a-progresser-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2026-01-21",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "More feedback does not guarantee better work. Research suggests examining what feedback enables people to correct, rather than simply how often it is given.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Frontline Management",
  "place": {
    "name": "Geneva",
    "region": "Genève",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "Avraham N."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The mechanism: making correction actionable",
      "point": "John Hattie and Helen Timperley (2007, Review of Educational Research) distinguish feedback about the task, processes, self-regulation and the person in a review focused on learning."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "One might conclude that factual feedback automatically improves performance."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The limits of the evidence and of common practice",
      "point": "The meta-analysis brings together heterogeneous interventions and tasks, while the second review focuses primarily on education."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Genève",
      "point": "Within SHR's « Management de proximité » programme, an application exercise could involve selecting a recurring task in Genève: document checks in private banking, approval of a briefing note in an international organisation, quality control in luxury watchmaking or verification of a commodity trading file."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "DeNisi",
      "year": "1996",
      "source": "Psychological Bulletin"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Timperley",
      "year": "2007",
      "source": "Review of Educational Research"
    }
  ],
  "wordCount": 405,
  "image": "https://www.shr.swiss/img/blog-editorial-2026-01-21-en.jpg?v=4",
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  "relatedPages": {
    "programme": "https://www.shr.swiss/formation/management-de-proximite/geneve",
    "city": "https://www.shr.swiss/formations-ville/geneve",
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  },
  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
}