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Learning from external perspectives and critical voices
To ensure the team remains open to learning from those outside its boundaries. Periodically seek input from external perspectives: • Invite a stakeholder or community member to share their experience of the team's work • Review feedback or criticism from external sources and discuss what… An ongoing team scaffold (learning session), run quarterly or as needed, not as a one-off session.
Practical
- Time
- 45-60 min
- Group
- 3–20 · small-group
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- None beyond ordinary meeting/work settings
- Mechanisms
- life-embedding, cognitive-reframing
- Change scope
- state → skill · recurring-practice (Quarterly or as needed)
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
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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): Create psychological safety for engaging with uncomfortable feedback. Model non-defensive response to criticism. Ensure external input is genuinely considered.
status: checked · added 2026-08-25