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Constructive disagreement practices
Disagreement is inevitable and can be productive or destructive. Establish norms that make disagreement safe and productive: • Focus on issues rather than people—critique ideas, not individuals • Assume good intentions • Seek to understand before seeking to be understood •… An ongoing team scaffold (team norms), run continuous, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 5-90 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, dialogic-encounter, behavioral-rehearsal
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (Continuous)
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 constructive disagreement—disagree openly but respectfully. Create norms that make disagreement safe. Intervene when disagreement becomes personal or destructive.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25