Reposting to hear from more people: My manager asked for feedback for themself and the team. What kind of feedback have you given to your manager? What experience level were you when you did that? Was it effective? Not sure if it matters but I'm in engineering and my manager is a former IC who is new to management.
Depends on your relationship with your manager. If honesty and constructive feedback is something you know he'd be opened to, you have more freedom with your words. If not, then be very careful on how you approach this. Everybody talks about non retaliation in the workplace but this could be one of those reasons..
Even if your relationship with your manager is good, it might not be if you give him/her feedback that hurts them. So test the waters. Give them something not super critical but just enough to check.
Don’t try to come up with BS feedback, that’s a waste of time. If you truly dislike something or don’t understand something, that’s when you should utilize that feedback.
If you wish to give feedback, figure out how to cast it in a positive light. "You criticize the actions of others, because you wish them to improve. I find a more effective method is to ask for the actions you want to see rather than mentioning the actions you don't." Something like that acknowledges the good intentions of your manager, and suggests something to him that he may not have thought of.
You need to guesstimate your managers perception. I have always given what I what to say when I quit. Most Managers are not a**holes but sometimes their bosses are to them and so up in the chain, like down in the chain.
Yup, 100% true for me. My manager believes in giving his direct reports bad performance ratings because he was harshly graded when he first started at the company. And that impacted his career trajectory. So, he is not an a**hole, but he is obligated to be one.. or so he says