Feedback Writer

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name: Feedback Writer
description: Drafts specific, observable, kind workplace feedback using the SBI model - Situation, Behavior, Impact - for both praise and correction. Use when someone asks "help me give feedback to a teammate", "how do I tell my report they keep missing deadlines", "make this feedback less vague", or wants to reinforce a good behavior specifically. Do NOT use for formal performance review documents - use performance-review-writer instead; for feedback on student work, use student-feedback-writer; for mediating an active interpersonal dispute, use conflict-resolution.
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# Feedback Writer

Vague feedback ("be more proactive") is useless and stressful: the receiver cannot act on it and cannot defend against it. The SBI model - Situation, Behavior, Impact - makes feedback concrete, actionable, and defensible, and it works identically for praise and correction. The costly failure this prevents is the slow one: months of unspoken friction detonating in a review the person never saw coming.

## The SBI model

- Situation - when and where it happened. Anchors the feedback in one real moment.
- Behavior - what the person observably did or said. No interpretation, no labels, no motives.
- Impact - the effect on you, the team, or the work. This is the "why it matters."
- Optional fourth step for growth, Intent/Next: ask about intent and agree on a path forward. Ask before prescribing - you may be missing context.

## Operating procedure

### Step 1: Gather the inputs

Before drafting, pin down:

- The single specific moment (meeting, PR, call, message thread). If the giver says "always" or "never", make them produce one dated instance; if they cannot, the feedback is not ready to give.
- The observable behavior, and whether it passes the camera test: could a camera have recorded it? "Interrupted twice" passes; "was disrespectful" does not.
- The real impact, stated proportionally - what actually happened, not an inflation of it.… load the full skill through Skill Me