Understanding the impact of growth-oriented leadership and instruction in my classroom, I realized that this approach would be applicable to an office work environment as well. Many employees in leadership roles lack the training and skills needed in order to create a productive work environment and support the growth of their employees.

I identified this deficit through my own experiences, as well as conversations with colleagues and students. Leadership is often one of the most overlooked skills when it comes to training effective employees. In this course, I focus on creating an opportunity for novice supervisors to practice four key aspects of giving growth-oriented feedback: timely, meaningful, candid, and specific.

I used the information I gathered in my needs analysis to create a succinct learning objective to direct the outcome of the course that considered the audience and learning. This objective states that "managers and supervisors will provide co-workers with constructive feedback to instill a growth-mindset atmosphere in the workplace".

From this point, I break down the elements of providing effective growth-oriented feedback into four categories: specific, meaningful, candid, and timely. These elements were the center of my course and I wanted to remind the learner repetitively that these were the skills I wanted them to walk away with. I used these elements to organize my scenes and scenarios in the design process.