{"id":4747,"date":"2023-03-30T14:57:29","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T06:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/?p=4747"},"modified":"2025-08-26T12:22:50","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T04:22:50","slug":"workshop-face-threatening-acts-how-to-give-critical-feedback-without-anyone-losing-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/news\/workshop-face-threatening-acts-how-to-give-critical-feedback-without-anyone-losing-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Workshop &#8211; Face-threatening acts &#8211; How to Give Critical Feedback Without Anyone Losing Face"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h1>Face-threatening acts &#8211; How to Give Critical Feedback Without Anyone Losing Face<\/h1>\r\n<p>Under the auspices of the Oral Communication Committee (CELC), on March 29<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/staff\/mr-timothy-luke-groombridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tim Groombridge<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/staff\/ms-lee-gek-ling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lee Gek Ling<\/a>\u00a0conducted a 90-minute workshop entitled\u00a0Face-threatening acts &#8211; <em>How to Give Critical Feedback Without Anyone Losing Face. <\/em>In total, there were 22 participants; both staff and students were present. This workshop was an adapted version of one done in November 2022 and focused mainly on feedback given in the workplace between employees and supervisors. Strategies and examples were provided and the reaction from the participants was lively and productive. The emphasis was on the practical rather than the theoretical, but an e-handout provided additional background information. <em>The workshop also included by request, \u00a0an extra half-hour activity on<\/em> student generated peer feedback \u00a0using two example scripts. Participants \u00a0reinforced\u00a0 the key learning points through this extended activity.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Face-threatening acts &#8211; How to Give Critical Feedback Without Anyone Losing Face Under the auspices of the Oral Communication Committee (CELC), on March 29th\u00a0Tim Groombridge\u00a0and\u00a0Lee Gek Ling\u00a0conducted a 90-minute workshop entitled\u00a0Face-threatening acts &#8211; How to Give Critical Feedback Without Anyone Losing Face. In total, there were 22 participants; both staff and students were present. This &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/news\/workshop-face-threatening-acts-how-to-give-critical-feedback-without-anyone-losing-face\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Workshop &#8211; Face-threatening acts &#8211; How to Give Critical Feedback Without Anyone Losing Face<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4750,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7180,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4747\/revisions\/7180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nus.edu.sg\/celc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}