This phrase creeps me out. It reads like you're putting a thin veneer of "corporate happyface" over a heart of "STFU and do as you're told, children".
Maybe that wasn't the intention, but still... that's how it sounds.
>Precipitating new conversations with strong implication there’s a better way is less welcome.
Provided you are thick skinned enough not to take offense I don't see the problem.
I've had conversations like this with juniors where they want to rewrite everything and I usually drill in to what they're saying using a kind of socratic questioning method and get them to explain on a deeper level what they think the benefits and costs of the approach they're describing is.
This process is both instructive (juniors are typically pretty bad at cost/benefit analyses, and need to learn) and it makes them feel like they're being listened to. Usually it ends up with an agreement about how to proceed - which is often "good, but not high priority idea but let's put it on the back burner" and is sometimes "bad idea, actually, but that's ok".
IME you get jaded and burned out people much quicker by instinctively rejecting suggestions and telling them to knuckle under, do as they're told and not speak out of turn until they've "earned" the right to do so. That's also a fantastic way of keeping genuinely good ideas and salient observations under wraps.
This phrase creeps me out. It reads like you're putting a thin veneer of "corporate happyface" over a heart of "STFU and do as you're told, children".
Maybe that wasn't the intention, but still... that's how it sounds.
>Precipitating new conversations with strong implication there’s a better way is less welcome.
Provided you are thick skinned enough not to take offense I don't see the problem.
I've had conversations like this with juniors where they want to rewrite everything and I usually drill in to what they're saying using a kind of socratic questioning method and get them to explain on a deeper level what they think the benefits and costs of the approach they're describing is.
This process is both instructive (juniors are typically pretty bad at cost/benefit analyses, and need to learn) and it makes them feel like they're being listened to. Usually it ends up with an agreement about how to proceed - which is often "good, but not high priority idea but let's put it on the back burner" and is sometimes "bad idea, actually, but that's ok".
IME you get jaded and burned out people much quicker by instinctively rejecting suggestions and telling them to knuckle under, do as they're told and not speak out of turn until they've "earned" the right to do so. That's also a fantastic way of keeping genuinely good ideas and salient observations under wraps.