4 Tips for Addressing—and Even Embracing—Tension - Holly Bybee & Lauren Yarmuth

This resource first appeared in issue #47 on 23 Oct 2020 and has tags Becoming A Manager: Conflict/Difficult Discussions

4 Tips for Addressing—and Even Embracing—Tension - Holly Bybee & Lauren Yarmuth

Tension between ideas is good and healthy and normal in technical teams, and Bybee & Yarmuth talk about how to address it and harness it constructively.

  • Observe the dynamic
  • Give it a name - call it out
  • Just start making - Don’t try to sort out the tension on some abstract plane, start doing something to make things concrete
  • Assume good intent - Keep in your and your team member’s minds that it’s not idea X vs idea Y, it is the team members vs the problem that you are trying to solve.
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