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Designated challenger role
To ensure important proposals receive genuine critical examination. When discussing significant decisions or plans, assign one team member the role of designated challenger. This person's job is to identify weaknesses, question assumptions, and articulate what could go wrong.… An ongoing team scaffold (role assignment), run at significant decisions, 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, cognitive-reframing, dialogic-encounter
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (At significant decisions)
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): Assign the role and ensure it rotates. Model receiving challenges non-defensively. Thank the challenger for their contribution.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25