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Hi, folks any experienced people here who can give me advice on how I can improve my communication skills. I've recently hit a wall at work and have personally been struggling with being more effective as part of being a tech lead of a project. There are times where I feel like I have to constantly interject to ensure people are on the same page. Despite documenting everything and taking notes people seem to keep bringing up the same issues every meeting and we are just going in circles. What complicates the situation a bit is that some of the folks working on the project are contractors so I tend to have to babysit them a bit more at times as well. I've been holding back on being direct with people in these open meetings but do people think I should start holding people more accountable? We have a certain member on the team who is essentially stalling the project as they keep flip flopping on their stance and bringing up new "issues" every time we try to go forward with decisions despite them agreeing to the decision in previous meetings/chats. Its been annoying since that person also tends to not understand the discussions as they are not directly involved in all of the work so they make many wrong assumptions and our meetings tend to get derailed with people having to explain how things work. To make things worse they almost never follow up on any comments offline in tickets and shared documents so they use the meeting time to answer those questions.... I've never dealt with someone like this in my entire life, as most people usually read the room and eventually catch on. Current TC 390k (455 before stock drop) IC5
Be more direct, say issues can be discussed offline/outside of the meeting. Bring up their behavior directly 1-1, be confrontational but "understanding" and empathetic. Don't let your reports walk over you
Wow even working at meta you struggle with this? I thought meta was supposed to be filled with highly autonomous individuals who can take on ambiguous tasks and excel? But have you tried just talking to them directly in a 1 on 1 sync up? Like say hey can we sync up on this after this meeting, I have some thoughts? Then bring up what you're seeing using words like I think, I feel, for example I feel like we've been going in circles on this, what do you think? Then see what they say. They might be struggling with something and would be more open to taking to you about it in a 1 on 1
I think find the repetition your members are making like discussing issue in meeting instead of reading doc, and let everyone know that there is a document and read it thoroughly and how development time is precious.. basically speak the truth don't chew your words instead polish them so that message get across the table. My 2cents
I wouldn't be on blind asking for advice if we weren't already doing this. The issue is in person they always agree to something but they either change their stance the following meeting or dont do what was agreed with. Getting to the point where I'm considering talking to their direct which I really don't want to do except as a last resort.
@owmm55 if you haven't already, start keeping decision logs or meeting minutes to as evidence show the flip flop. At some point, as a leader on the team, you are accountable to escalating the issue to their manager because it's dragging down the whole team.