Welcome feedback - Towards a constructive feedforward culture (Business theatre)

'Welcome feedback: towards a constructive feedforward culture' is an awareness-raising event on feedback, both open to all researchers and UHasselt staff.**

The call for a constructive feedback culture is omnipresent. It is therefore an important way to make the transition to a participative corporate culture resulting in employee satisfaction, involvement and commitment. But it also has its challenges. For how can you avoid the judgmental nature of feedback, and create the necessary trust to exchange thoughts freely?

The answer lies in the role we assign to feedback. Feedback is not a goal in itself, but a tool to build a growth culture, where people feel respected and accepted as individuals, and are given responsibility to contribute to their personal growth, and that of their organisation. 

The format of this event will be business theatre, by Klein Barnum. It invites you to playfully discover how a constructive feedback culture can be created, by means of a series of realistic and humoristic scenes. Input from the audience can be asked by means of color cards, but verbal interaction is not obliged and you will not be asked to join the actors on stage ;-). Just sit back and enjoy how the business theatre enfolds and learn more about the importance of feedback in your professional life. 

**This event is part of the yearly networking event in the context of the mentoring trajectory. Check out this page if you would like to find out more about mentoring. You can sign up for a new trajectory from October 2025 onwards; more info will follow soon. 

Learning outcomes

At the end of the session, you ...

• will be more aware of the importance of constructive feedback and feedforward
• will have a better understanding of compliments and positive feedback
• will have gained insight into the possible pitfalls and best practices of change feedback
• will have learnt more about ways to receive feedback: listening without prejudice

Competences

An important part of preparing for any further professional step is becoming (more) aware of the competences you have developed and/or want to develop. In the current workshop, the following competences from the UHasselt competency overview are actively dealt with:

• interpersonal competences:
  • oral communication
  • collaboration
• intellectual competences:
  • critical judgment
  • creativity
• personal effectiveness:
  • self-development
  • initiative
    
    

For whom?

• PhD students, postdocs, UHasselt staff
• There are 80 places available for the event. 

When and where?

• October 23, 2025 - 17:00-18:30
• Campus Diepenbeek, H4

Registration?

• Registration is closed.
• Please cancel your registration at least one week in advance in case you cannot make it (cf. cancellation & no-show policy).