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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

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

Listen to the Feedback

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

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 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

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

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.

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Photo of stacks of Radical Candor® books 

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Kim Scott

Tackle the Hard Conversations With Radical Candor®

Put Radical Candor® into action with

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Refer to this checklist for a comprehensive catalog of all you need to care for your straight hair. Take stock of what you already have, what you might need, and what fits into your budget.

Checklist: Tools and Products for Straight Hair

Sienree, a Mane Addicts master hairstylist, shares her hair type, maintenance routine, and methods for protecting her straight, bleached hair. She provides professional insight into products, tools, and tips for people with straight, fine hair.

Intro to Straight Hair: Meet Sienree

Sienree explains how to create your final look: a strand rope braid. After making the braid, she elevates the look by adding homemade French hairpin accessories.

Style 3: The Rope Braid

Now that you’ve learned Sienree’s three recommended styles for straight hair, try them out on your own. Take a photo of your process and share the results with your peers on the community page.

Share Your Look

Sienree demonstrates how people with straight hair can achieve a natural wavy look. She shows you how to prep and protect your hair using different products, tools, and techniques.

Style 1: The Down and Wavy Look

Sienree demonstrates the next style: a ponytail using a natural-looking extension. Then she shows you how to transform the ponytail into a textured bun.

Style 2: The Ponytail and Textured Bun

Take a look at your peers’ hairstyles and share your thoughts. Comment with any feedback or encouragement you have for your fellow straight-hair folks.

Feedback: Styles for Straight Hair

Hairstylist Sienree Du—who has styled Maggie Rogers and Jeannie Mai Jenkins—demonstrates styles for straight hair. Sienree goes step-by-step through a natural down and wavy look, a ponytail with extensions that converts into a bun, and a rope braid.

Hairstylist Sienree Du—who has styled Jeannie Mai Jenkins—demonstrates styles for straight hair.

Styling Straight Hair

Refer to this checklist for a comprehensive reference of all you need to care for your curly hair. Take stock of what you already have, what you might need, and what fits into your budget.

Checklist: Tools and Products for Curly Hair

Irinel takes you step-by-step through the next look: a twist on a curly ponytail. Once she has the ponytail locked in, she shows you how to transform it into a romantic bun.

Style 2: The Curly Ponytail and Romantic Bun

Now that you’ve learned Irinel’s three recommended styles for curly hair, try them out on your own. Take a photo of your process and share the results with your peers on the community page.

For the third and final style, Irinel shows you how to create an accessorized French braided look that you can use every day. She also shows you how to incorporate a scarf into the braid.

Style 3: The French Braid

Take a look at your peers’ hairstyles and share your thoughts. Comment with any feedback or encouragement you have for your fellow curly-hair folks.

Feedback: Styles for Curly Hair

Follow along as Irinel demonstrates the best way to define and style your curls when you want to wear your hair down. She shows you how to keep things simple using two to three products max.

Style 1: The Natural Curls Look

Jen chats with Irinel about caring for curly hair. Irinel provides insight into how she and her fellow stylists from Mane Addicts select products, tools, and maintenance strategies for anyone with “Type 3” hair.

Intro to Curly Hair: Meet Irinel

Curly hair connoisseur Irinel de León has styled Bella Hadid, Jessica Alba, and Huda Kattan. Her tips and tricks will help you manage your curly hair and master three styles—a natural down look, a ponytail that can turn into a romantic bun, and a French braid.

Curly hair connoisseur Irinel de León will help you manage your curly hair and master three styles.

Styling Curly Hair

Refer to this checklist for a comprehensive roster of all you need to care for your wavy hair. Take stock of what you already have, what you might need, and what fits into your budget.

Checklist: Tools and Products for Wavy Hair

In this section, Jen explains types of hair waves, the best styling tools for them, and her own haircare routine. Then she demonstrates how to master three unique hairstyles for wavy hair—a polished down look, a versatile ponytail you can wrap into a bun, and a festive braid.

Jen explains her own haircare routine and demonstrates how to master three hairstyles for wavy hair.

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