Timeline for Difficult relationship with Opinionated Senior Colleagues [duplicate]
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| Jun 29, 2015 at 4:49 | history | closed |
gnat Joe Strazzere Michael Grubey Jenny D Nobody |
Duplicate of How can I get co-workers to buy into some of my ideas? [duplicate] | |
| Jun 29, 2015 at 1:12 | comment | added | ColleenV | A tactic that has worked really well for me is to ask questions instead of arguing. "Oh, Arduino is terrible? What so awful about it? Oh, the API has no code partitioning and no abstraction? That is a big drawback. Does it really matter for this little thing we're doing here though? It seems like we have enough experience to hack around that and save ourselves some time." If someone is convinced they're 100% correct, you'll get nowhere by telling them they're wrong. Understand why they're so sure first, then edge-case them until they shift their view enough to be open to what you're saying. | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 15:44 | vote | accept | Antonio | ||
| Jun 28, 2015 at 15:39 | comment | added | Antonio | @JoeStrazzere I will admit that is not something I have done, I brushed it off as perhaps something unsuitable to do with them. Done correctly it may have potential now when I think about it again, especially with the suggestion in rath's answer to be more credibility/solution orientated. | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 15:26 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 28, 2015 at 14:24 | answer | added | rath | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 13:54 | comment | added | Antonio | @JoeStrazzere I specifically joined this team because electronics interest me and is an area that I have little engagement with otherwise. I'd really like to see if I could resolve it without going that far, but of course it remains an option. As the product remains a common goal between the (sub)teams, I also think quality/process suffers a bit for everybody as it stands and would like to push us forward to improve as I think I could. | |
| Jun 28, 2015 at 13:41 | history | edited | Antonio |
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| Jun 28, 2015 at 13:33 | history | asked | Antonio | CC BY-SA 3.0 |