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Anticipating and addressing emerging issues
Many problems are easier to address when they are small than when they have grown into crises. Create regular practices for scanning the horizon: • What is coming that the team should be aware of? • What trends are developing? • What potential problems are emerging? This might be a regular agenda item… An ongoing team scaffold (team practice), run at regular meetings, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 15-30 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, behavioral-rehearsal, cognitive-reframing
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (At regular meetings)
Instructions
- Where
- idg.thomasjordan.se/idg-team-scaffolds-webapp.html — Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Team leader role (Jordan): Model forward-looking attention. Create structures for horizon scanning. Encourage early action on emerging issues. Recognize and appreciate proactive intervention.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25