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This session will help you build a tool kit for your specific hair type. Don’t worry about having everything in your cabinet!

Take a few pages out of celebrity hairstylist Jen Atkin’s playbook. In this session, you'll identify your personal haircare needs, revamp your routine, and become your own stylist.

Style Your Own Hair For Any Occasion

Alexis Ohanian shares the entrepreneurial advice he wishes he knew before becoming cofounder of Reddit.

Teaches Building Your Startup

Karla Welch, celebrity stylist, teaches you how to identify and own your personal style whether you’re discovering your signature look or refining your capsule wardrobe.

Teaches Building and Owning Your Personal Style

Perfect your cup of Joe in the morning then master pizza night at home with lessons on the new MasterClass series, G.O.A.T. World Barista Champion Dale Harris and 13-time World Pizza Champion Tony Gemignani share their secrets to help you master your favorite sips and dishes at home. 

The Greatest of All Time

Rosalind Brewer, CEO of Walgreens Boots Alliance, teaches business innovation on @MasterClass. Learn how to get buy-in from your team and innovate from within. 

Teaches Business Innovation

In a new Masterclass Original Series, Talking Shop, watch Neil Gaiman, Kevin Smith, and Gloria Steinem discuss those who have impacted their career journeys.

Icons and Their Influences

Duke Basketball’s Coach K has led some of the world’s greatest basketball players to victory. Now he’s teaching you how to bring out the best in your team, on or off the court.

Teaches Values-Driven Leadership

Plan Your Dream Wedding

On MasterClass, learn crypto from market experts: Emilie Choi, Chris Dixon, Paul Krugman, and Changpeng “CZ” Zhao. Get the breakdown on blockchain technology, crypto investment, and the future of cryptocurrency.

With Noted Experts

Naomi Campbell shares how she became one of the world’s biggest supermodels, and how developing a confident walk and finding your angles can empower anyone.

Teaches Modeling Fundamentals

How would you react in an emergency situation? On Masterclass’s Crisis Story, learn how Chris Hadfield, Chris Voss, and Condoleezza Rice and Stephen Hadley took decisive action when it mattered most..

Chris Voss and Noted Co-Experts

Teaches Singing

Christina Aguilera Teaches Singing

Teaches Photography

Annie Leibovitz Teaches Photography

Teaches Cooking II: Restaurant Recipes at Home

Gordon Ramsay Teaches Cooking II: Restaurant Recipes at Home

Teaches U.S. Presidential History and Leadership

Doris Kearns Goodwin Teaches U.S. Presidential History and Leadership

Teaches Dog Training

Brandon McMillan Teaches Dog Training

Teaches Interior Design

Kelly Wearstler Teaches Interior Design

Teaches Chess

Garry Kasparov Teaches Chess

Teaches the Science of Better Sleep

Matthew Walker Teaches the Science of Better Sleep

Teaches the Art of Negotiation

Chris Voss Teaches The Art of Negotiation

Teaches Creative Writing

Margaret Atwood Teaches Creative Writing

Teaches Conservation

Dr. Jane Goodall Teaches Conservation

"Learning radical candor is vital for me to be a better boss and overall person." -Ruth O. 

"I never really knew what radical cando was but now I'm realizing how important it is to be very honest when delivering and receiving feedback." -Brett W.

"This is something I'm going to have to practice often! And with time, it will get easier so long as I revisit Kim's tips." -Stefan T.

"Having the opportunity to practice giving praise made me realize how hard it actually is. Praise is more than a compliment and should be given with intention." -Rachelle J.

"Criticism doesn't always have to be about something super major but the way we deliver the feedback can be most affective if we use this method." -Justin J.

"I don't always know how to handle situations where and employee gets mad or sad with the feedback I give them, but now I know, radical candor is the best way to approach hard conversations." -Phillipa Z.

Kim explains what the Radical Candor method is and why it’s valuable in any relationship—at work and at home. The first step in your journey is understanding where you are. Complete this self-assessment from Kim to get started.

What Is Radical Candor®?

In a demonstration with Lele and Roberto, Kim shows you how to use the four quadrants and two axes of Radical Candor to analyze feedback.

The 4 Quadrants in Action

Listen to Kim’s real-life accounts on the value of candid criticism and why it’s your job to give radically candid feedback. Discover how “protective hesitation” can hold you back.

Why, Where, and How to Give Radical Candor

Kim shares stories of Radical Candor in action and provides a checklist you can use to understand and embrace the Radical Candor method.

Radical Candor Stories

Here’s your chance to speak up! It’s time for you to share a story about receiving radically candid feedback. If you need inspiration, check out your peers’ stories. Or, if you aren’t comfortable sharing just yet, write your story and select the “Do not share with the community” box.

Share Your Radical Candor Story

Kim takes a question from a MasterClass member. Consider how you might respond—then get Kim’s suggested approach through the Radical Candor framework.

Radical Candor Advice Column

Navigate the four quadrants of Radical Candor and learn why this framework can improve your interactions in any relationship, at work or at home.

Navigate the four quadrants of Radical Candor and improve your interactions at work—or at home.

Understand Radical Candor

Meet Kim Scott—the thought leader on a mission to rid the world of bad bosses—and learn how she developed the Radical Candor® framework. She’ll provide an overview of what you’ll accomplish during her session and share how you can start putting Radical Candor into practice right away.

Meet Your Instructor: Kim Scott

Kim introduces herself and provides an overview of what you’ll do: Learn the Radical Candor® method for getting and giving transformational feedback. 

Meet Kim and the Radical Candor® method for getting and giving transformational feedback. 

Introduction

Think about how you’d answer this question from a fellow MasterClass member. Get Kim’s take and see how it lines up with all you’ve learned about the Radical Candor method.

Learn why asking for feedback is critical to your success. Then customize Kim’s favorite go-to question to your own voice—and use it to start inviting honest, open-ended, and transformational feedback from others.

How to Ask For Feedback

Create and share a plan for putting your go-to question to work—and then put your plan into action.

Share Your Plan

Kim walks you through her tips for receiving feedback effectively, starting with the way you hear it.

Listen to the Feedback

Learn techniques for rewarding the candor you receive and dive into Kim’s illustrations of how those techniques work in different situations.

Reward Candor

Observe instances of solicited feedback—and remember to apply what you’ve learned about asking for feedback.

Practice Asking for Feedback

Let’s learn by doing—and learn from one another! Use your go-to question for soliciting feedback, then share stories of your experience with your peers.

Assignment: Make the Ask

Walk through Kim’s methodical approach to providing and receiving feedback, including how to identify and reward candor in the workplace and beyond.

Learn Kim’s approach to giving and receiving feedback as well as identifying and rewarding candor.

Ask for and Receive Feedback

Kim discusses the differences between criticism, correction, and debate while demonstrating their distinctions with personal examples.

Criticism, Correction, and Debate at Work

Giving criticism doesn’t have to hurt—but bottling it up can. Kim breaks down the long-term effects of avoiding criticism and shares methods for improving criticism. Learn how to apply HIP and CORN to make your criticism valuable and transformational.

HIP and CORN for Criticism

Kim walks you through two scenarios in which criticism is delivered—including one that could use improvement—and asks for your suggestions. Then it’s your turn! Use Kim’s checklist to help you offer effective criticism.

Practice Giving Criticism

Explore your peers’ reflections and provide feedback on their experiences.

Give Feedback

Reflect on how it felt to provide criticism and submit your thoughts to your peers.

How Did Your Criticism Go?

Kim shares another question from a MasterClass member. Take a moment to consider it and then hear her perspective to view the situation through a radically candid lens.

Apply the same tools you learned for giving praise to provide criticism through a caring lens. Learn how to identify the real problem when bias, prejudice, and bullying creep in masked as feedback.

Learn to identify the real problem when bias, prejudice, and bullying creep in masked as feedback.

Give Criticism Effectively

Kim shares a question from a fellow member. Take a moment to consider their issue and then hear Kim’s thoughts on how Radical Candor can help.

Reflect on how your experience giving praise unfolded and submit your thoughts to your peers.

How Did Your Praise Go?

Now that you’ve learned Kim’s strategies for receiving feedback, it’s time to learn how to give praise! Using an image guide, learn how Kim uses two critical acronyms—HIP and CORN—to give praise effectively.

HIP and CORN for Feedback

Using role-play, Kim demonstrates two paths for giving praise: one that is ideal and another that needs  improvement. She also shares a checklist you can use for giving effective praise.

Common Mistakes When Giving Praise

Explore Kim’s tools for giving praise and learn how to use them in your day-to-day interactions.

Offer Powerful Praise 

Check out your peers’ stories and share your feedback.

Kim explains what “speak truth to power” meetings are and teaches a step-by-step process for gathering and delivering feedback for managers.

“Speak Truth to Power” Meeting

Kim shares another question from the class. Take a moment to consider it and then hear her perspective.

Kim teaches you how to cultivate a culture that prioritizes growth and inhibits backstabbing.

Prevent Backstabbing at Work

Learn about the importance of storytelling and explore how it can help you create a shared vocabulary and manage expectations.

Use Storytelling to Encourage Radical Candor

Learn what steps you need to take—in addition to effectively giving and receiving feedback—to create a candid culture.

Create a Culture of Radical Candor

It’s time to share! Consider which behaviors you exhibit most often, then write your story and record a video telling us about it. Upload your video online and share a viewable link below.

Assignment: What’s Your Story?

With Kim’s approach, you can create a culture of candor that highlights the importance of storytelling and speaking truth to power.

Create a culture of candor that highlights the importance of speaking truth to power.

Put Radical Candor to Work

Learn why feedback is measured at the listener’s ear—and how you can build a process of constant improvement, including identifying and weeding out bias.

The Listener’s Ear

Kim teaches you what to do in a feedback situation when the receiver gets angry.

Feedback Tips: If They Seem Mad…

Kim teaches you what to do in a feedback situation when the receiver isn’t listening.

Feedback Tips: If They Are Not Listening…

More often than you might guess, you’ll find yourself in all four quadrants of Radical Candor in a single conversation. Discover how it can happen, and how to navigate such a situation in a real-life scenario.

4 Quadrants, 1 Conversation

Read your peers’ reflections and share your feedback.

Kim shares a question from another MasterClass member. Take a moment to consider their issue and then hear Kim’s thoughts on how Radical Candor could help.

Kim teaches you what to do in a feedback situation when the receiver becomes sad.

Feedback Tips: If They Seem Sad…

Reflect on how feedback you’ve given in the past has been received—and identify how the Radical Candor tools you’ve learned could have improved those interactions.

Assignment: Gauge the Landing

Everyone interprets feedback differently. Discover how to understand and respond to varying reactions when giving feedback.

Discover how to understand and respond to varying reactions when giving feedback.

Gauge How Your Feedback Lands

Take a moment to celebrate how far you’ve come! Take note as Kim shares her final thoughts on the power of practicing Radical Candor, and fill out a self-assessment to gauge your progress.

Persistence and Practice

In her final advice column, Kim answers another question. She  offers guidance to her former self, emphasizing the importance of using Radical Candor and teaching it to others.

Using concrete examples, Kim shows you how to identify bias, prejudice, and bullying disguised as feedback.

Bias, Prejudice, and Bullying

Learn Kim’s favorite tips and techniques for maintaining your new skills, encouraging candor, and sustaining the empowering culture you’ve created.

Maintain your new skills, encourage candor, and sustain the empowering culture you’ve created.

Cultivate a Candid Culture

Learn the Framework

Cultivate a Candid Culture 

Give and Get Powerful Feedback

For this session, all you’ll need are your favorite tools for taking notes.

Transform your teams and tackle tough conversations with bestselling author Kim Scott. In this session, you’ll use her Radical Candor method to give and solicit feedback, cultivate an inclusive culture, and empower others with your honesty.

Former CEO coach Kim Scott’s breakthrough approach helped forward-thinking leaders across the globe use directness to drive success. Now the bestselling author is teaching you her acclaimed Radical Candor® framework for giving and getting game-changing feedback, tackling tough conversations, and cultivating an inclusive culture.

Photo of Kim Scott in an orange sweater, speaking

Photo of stacks of Radical Candor® books 

Photo of Kim Scott sitting in a chair, speaking with an upward hand gesture

Kim Scott

Tackle the Hard Conversations With Radical Candor®

Put Radical Candor® into action with

Business

In this section, you’ll continue to create realistic facial features with your brushstrokes. Devon demonstrates how to fill in the lips, nose, and ears, and encourages you to do the same with your portrait.

Introduction to Painting Facial Features

Devon shows how to blend and paint the nose.

Painting the Nose

Devon shows how to paint realistic ears that look like those of your subject.

Painting the Ears

Share your thoughts now that everyone’s portraits are complete with facial features. Describe any successes or challenges you had, and comment on two of your peers’ photos.

Feedback: Painting Facial Features

Gather the materials you’ll need to paint the lips, nose, and ears on your portrait. The optional links will direct you to an Amazon product page that is not affiliated with MasterClass. Look through the “See Similar Items” section on Amazon if the product is not readily available, or buy locally.

Gather Your Supplies for Painting the Lips, Nose, and Ears

Devon shows how to paint realistic lips with depth and dimension before you try your hand at it.

Painting the Lips

It’s time to use all the techniques you’ve learned so far to bring the entirety of the face to your realistic oil portrait. Paint the lips, nose, and ears onto your portrait, and upload a photo of it to the community forum so your fellow artists can see your progress. Please share your photo as a .jpg or .png image file. The file size limit is 10 MB.

Share Your Progress on the Facial Features

As the face of your portrait comes to life, you’ll continue to bring dimension to your painting with realistic facial details. Devon will show you how to add depth while regulating tone.

Lips, Nose, and Ears

Devon shows you how to enhance your portrait by adding final highlights to your subject’s face and hair.

Painting the Final Highlights

Voilà! You did it! Put the final touches on your portrait—the neck, shirt, background, and final highlights—and upload your completed portrait to the community page for all your peers to see. Please share your photo as a .jpg or .png image file. The file size limit is 10 MB. Congratulations on all your hard work!

Share Your Finished Portrait

Celebrate all the artistry of your peers by reviewing their finished pieces. Share insights into what techniques worked well for you throughout the class, and comment on two of your peers’ paintings.

Feedback: Final Portraits

Gather the materials you’ll need to paint the neck, shirt, and background on your portrait. The optional links will direct you to an Amazon product page that is not affiliated with MasterClass. Look through the “See Similar Items” section on Amazon if the product is not readily available, or buy locally.

Gather Your Supplies for Painting the Neck, Shirt, and Background

You’ve painted your subject! Now it’s time to make your art pop. In this section, you will paint the neck, shoulders, clothing, and background of your portrait to give it the details that bring it to life. Then Devon will show you how to paint the final highlights and varnish your portrait. Your masterpiece is almost complete!

Introduction to Final Highlights

Devon shows you how to paint the neck of your subject. Then he demonstrates painting the shoulders and shirt so that you can do the same with your piece.

Painting the Neck and Shirt

Devon explains how he thinks about filling in the background of his portrait, and then encourages you to try it on your own.

Painting the Background

When it comes to art, it’s all in the details. Devon guides you through painting your subject’s neck, clothing, and the background of the portrait.

Neck, Shirt, and Background

Gather the materials you’ll need to make your portrait line drawing. The optional links will direct you to an Amazon product page that is not affiliated with MasterClass. Look through the “See Similar Items” section on Amazon if the product is not readily available, or buy locally.

Gather Your Drawing Supplies

Describe what method you used to get to your final sketch outline—freehand drawing with grid lines or charcoal tracing. Describe the successes and challenges you discovered during your drawing process, and comment on two of your peers’ photos.

Feedback: Portrait Line Drawing

Devon takes you through the first step of bringing your portrait to life—drawing an outline. In this activity, Devon demonstrates charcoal tracing, which is an ideal drawing method for beginners. Then he invites you to begin drawing. 

If you’d like to try an intermediate-level method, you can advance to the fourth activity in this section. There, Devon will guide you through grid line drawing techniques instead. Or try both methods!

Portrait Line Drawing: Tracing

It’s time to start sketching. Devon takes you through charcoal tracing and grid line drawing—two techniques that provide the outline to your portrait. You’ll choose your preferred method depending on your skill level, then you’ll start drawing!

Portrait Drawing

For this session, you’ll need a variety of oil painting and drawing supplies, as well as gesso-primed panels and an easel.

Learn to create an astounding oil portrait. Whether you’re experienced or new to painting, refine your drawing, color-mixing, and varnishing techniques with TikTok sensation Devon Rodriguez.

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Gain New Skills in 10 Minutes

Gain New Skills in 10 Minutes