I spent the day at Tom Crane’s ***Heart of Coaching *** workshop today along with about twenty other consultants from the US, Canada, and Asia.

Tom is teaching people how to be better coaches in the workplace. One activity is blindfolding a participant and then conducting four rounds of dart tosses. During 4 rounds the participant gets different kinds of feedback and coaching. Then the participant group explores what helped the dart thrower to be more effective and to hit the target. (e.g. meet business goals.)

Note the dart mid-air. She missed.

The learning from these four rounds could be applied here on Picture A Day:
Round 1) No one learns from silence (no comments.)
Round 2) Criticism that is just a slam is no real help and it hurts.
Round 3) Nice general feedback feels good but doesn’t teach much.
Round 4) Specific feedback as to strengths and weakness helps us to improve our images each day.