✦ AUGHTY ✦ Feedback 3 MANAGER Overall a strong year. One area for development — we'd like you to work on your communication style. AUGHTY What specifically would you like me to change? MANAGER Just… be a bit more… you know. Diplomatic. AUGHTY Could you give me an example of something I said that wasn't diplomatic? MANAGER In the Thursday meeting you said the project timeline was "not realistic." AUGHTY It wasn't realistic. It missed by six weeks. MANAGER Yes but… there's a way of saying these things. AUGHTY Is there a way of saying them that also makes them not true? He said there's a way of saying things. He did not say what that way produces, if not the truth. I am still waiting for an answer.
He noted in my file I was "working on it." I was not working on it.