You are part of a small team that develops your company’s products. Your team is facing competition on the market and time and cost pressures internally. In order to manage these circumstances and encourage innovation, you’ve built a team culture that encourages rapidly testing and iterating upon new ideas. One of your colleagues, however, has struggled with wanting to find the perfect solution before taking action. This caused delays, impacting team performance, and frustration for many team members as they felt held back. Yet, nobody said anything to him. You want to provide him with considered feedback to help him get comfortable with experimentation and risk taking. What will you say to him? How will you give the feedback to highlight his behaviors and encourage a change? Make sure your feedback focuses on the positive: the outcome or impact your colleague will have if he changes his behavior – this will motivate and encourage him!

I would say things like there's a problem with this, lets get together and fix it or this is perfect! Or this is good but we might have some adjustments to make. I would pay attention to every little detail to make this product a success!

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jayilych4real jayilych4real · Answer 2 · 2021-12-30T14:36:05+01:00

The best approach to reach out to the affected worker would beto:

Ask him why he has a problem with finding solutions and taking action
Suggest workable solutions which you and members of the team have used successfully
Explain to him that his indecision is impacting the team work.

All these are important when giving considered feedback to the worker so that he knows how his poor performance is affecting members of his team.

Furthermore, by giving him workable solutions he would be forced to implement them and if this still does not work, it would be justified if he is replaced with a more capable worker.