When you are the leader of a team, you have a lot meetings, you tell people what should they do and how should they do it . The majority of work is accomplished through group discussions. Group discussion is actually more beneficial to your organization/team then when an individual is working on a project. Discussion time within a meeting is also the time when frustration builds. As a leader you want to avoid being frustrated. To avoid being frustrated you need to identify the reason for discussion. There are always three reasons why you have a discussion: to gather information, to exchange ideas and solve problems. if you know why you are discussing the issue, its easier to participate, keep the discussion on track and get results. As a leader you always need to beware of where the discussion is going. Two things that can happen during a discussion is one the development of information, ideas or issues and evaluating the information, ideas or issues. Usually devolving and evaluating get mixed up. This is where you can run into problems and get frustrated. To avoid this scenario, you need to get the ideas out first or develop the the information, ideas and issues. After the ideas are out, then evaluate. This keeps the group moving in the right direction and avoids having similar debates for each idea or comment.
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