One of the primary advantages of this model is the diagnostic specificity which it provides. What, according to this model, can be done to improve performance in individuals who have been unresponsive to feedback for some time. First, it must be determined that improvement is within the capability of the individual. Then efforts toward improvement should be focused on clarifying and agreeing on standards. Clarifying standards is a communication problem.
Agreement can take a great variety of forms including agreeing on a plurality of standards.
In any case, according to this model, once the standards and the performance are correctly understood and agreed on, performance will improve as a result of natural growth processes and feedback is not generally necessary. In fact it is generally disruptive. Providing evaluative feedback in a growth process is much like telling a child to be taller.