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Deliberate learning from others
To cultivate the habit of seeking and valuing input from outside the team. Create regular opportunities to learn from people outside the team: • Invite colleagues from other teams to share their expertise or perspectives • Seek feedback from stakeholders and discuss it genuinely… An ongoing team scaffold (learning activity), run ongoing, 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, open-awareness, cognitive-reframing
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (Ongoing)
Origin & where it lives
Thomas Jordan & Claude [AI] (IDG for Teams handbook — team scaffold) — IDG practice (idg.thomasjordan.se)
Instructions: open online
In this directory via Thomas Jordan's IDG Resource Library
Team leader role (Jordan): Model humility by seeking input yourself and acknowledging when others have better ideas. Create opportunities for the team to learn from external sources.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25