Jan 18, 2022 | by Budi Tanrim
Aligning different people
Whether you’re at the beginning, the middle, or the end of the project, alignment is essential to make meaningful progress as a team. However, people have different ideas.
Having different opinions is not entirely bad.
A diverse perspective is valuable. It enables us to look at the problem from different angles. An engineer might link the problem with the newest technology, while a researcher might emphasize the users’ pain points.
On the other hand, a diverse perspective means people have different ideas. That’s where it gets challenging. Managing discussion is one thing. The real question is: once we get everyone to voice their opinion, how can we utilize the diverse perspective without getting overwhelmed and make meaningful progress as a team?
Diverge, synthesis, converge. That’s the pattern in how you can facilitate many discussions. It is not always suitable for all discussions, but it could work as a starting point for you who want to start being a better facilitator.
Diverge is when people voice their different opinion individually.
Synthesis is when you as a group find a similar theme.
Converge is when your team reflects and makes a decision.
Tomorrow, let’s look at the example of how this plays out in practice.
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