A team with broken feedback loops shows its cracks quickly. Meetings feel like déjà vu because the same questions keep coming back. Problems that should be settled resurface again and again. Over time, silence sets in. Ideas are raised but never acknowledged, and people stop speaking up because they know nothing will come of it. Priorities then start to drift, and the team pulls in different directions. Progress slows from the uncertainty that grows when feedback goes unanswered.
Closing the loop doesn’t take a complex system. It takes the discipline to answer questions, acknowledge ideas, and explain decisions so they don’t disappear. When feedback makes the full trip out and back, people stop guessing, trust grows, and the work steadies.
Feedback only matters when it travels full circle. If it stops halfway, the team stops with it.
