encourage feedback

Meaning

This phrase means to actively invite and welcome opinions, criticisms, or suggestions from others about a product, performance, or process. It is widely used in customer service, HR, agile project management, and team leadership. The tone is collaborative and open.

Examples

• At the end of the presentation, I want to encourage feedback from the audience.

  At the end of the presentation, I want to encourage feedback from the audience.

• We use anonymous surveys to encourage feedback from employees who might be shy.

  We use anonymous surveys to encourage feedback from employees who might be shy.

• To improve our service, we must encourage feedback from our regular customers.

  To improve our service, we must encourage feedback from our regular customers.

• Managers should encourage feedback during performance reviews to make them a two-way conversation.

  Managers should encourage feedback during performance reviews to make them a two-way conversation.

• Our team leader always tries to encourage feedback so we can identify workflow issues early.

  Our team leader always tries to encourage feedback so we can identify workflow issues early.

Common Mistakes

• ✗ We want to encourage feedbacks from our clients.

  ✓ We want to encourage feedback from our clients.

  "Feedback" is an uncountable noun in English and should never be pluralized with an 's'.

• ✗ We encourage to feedback after every meeting.

  ✓ We encourage feedback after every meeting.

  "Encourage" is a transitive verb; it takes a direct object directly without the preposition "to".

Related Expressions

Practice

• We set up a digital suggestion box to ___ from all staff members.

  💡 Invite opinions and suggestions.

  Show answer

  encourage feedback

• If you want to improve your product, you must ___ from early users.

  💡 Actively ask for reviews and critiques.

  Show answer

  encourage feedback