A useful tool to provide immediate feedback to colleagues is Loom.
I use it to provide feedback to colleagues and as a backbone of the project I’m working on.
Providing Detailed and Immediate Feedback
Loom allows you to provide face-to-face like feedback on memos, PowerPoint presentations, and letters.
You can record yourself going through a colleague’s note, giving them real-time feedback as if you were sitting next to them/on a call.
Your colleagues can watch the short video when they have the time and at their own pace and watch certain parts repeatedly as needed.
The feedback you give is faster and more specific.
I’ve clipped (with Loom) an extract from the Tim Ferris Show with Sam Corcos on how they use it.
The upside is it allows you to give one-to-one feedback as if you were sitting in the same room without being there.
You can record the feedback so people can watch it when they have the time in their schedule.
They can watch complex pieces again and at a slower speed.
It allows you to give specific and immediate feedback. You can explain the feedback live as you revise. People get immediate feedback they can both see and hear – and get detailed detailed explanations for the changes.
And, as most people don’t have perfect recall, they can re-watch when it suits them.
It removes a lot of scheduling challenges.
This is the full show (well worth watching).
Checklists & Training
I’m working on a practical set of checklists and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for lobbying.
They chunk down regular work lobbyists do – from writing a position paper and preparing to prepare a letter for Inter-Service Consultation – and chunk debate summarises each product down into a checklist, SOP, template, and annotated example.
The advantage of Loom is you can record yourself going through each product and doing it. That will help colleagues follow the steps to get to a good product.
A use case: Prepare the First Draft
Sam Corcos gives a good use case for using Loom to prepare the first thoughts and then sending the transcript to your virtual AE (Chat GPT) to prepare the first outline.
Loom provides an accurate transcript of what was said.
More Uses
Here is a useful video from Loom on use cases.