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It is difficult to keep an open mind sometimes, especially when you are really certain of your own ideas. But it isn’t good for the team and puts you in a bad light if you aren’t at least trying to see others' views. I will ask a lot of questions and make it a point to find what works instead of what doesn’t.
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I just listen. I let them talk through it and then, just like I do with my own ideas, I asked them how they would address any perceived flaws in their approach.
If their idea has been thought through, then they would’ve thought through any of the pitfalls in their approach, if they need a moment to think about how to cover the pit files, I let them do it. But at the end of the day, I compared their idea against any other ideas and just go with whatever is better.
Subordinate your ego and repeat over and over like a mantra “it’s all about them not about me”
This is very helpful
Depending on your role, it might also be useful to look at what your responsibility is in the situation. Are you there to come up with ideas, or make decisions? As we're growing up professionally, we get rewarded as individual contributors/action officers for the ideas we come up with. But as leaders and managers, we have a different role.
Practice approaching these situations from the perspective of your responsibility being to make a decision, not necessary generate the ideas.
It depends on the situation to which you have to be open minded on. True there can be more than one right opinion. Yes a particular opinion can be wrong.
The best thing to do would be to discuss different view points to see if there's a general consensus.
On the other hand that may not always work. For example. I've always been dead against visiting the night clubs and pubs in York. Last year a friend of mine nagged me to go out with him on a night out. Both of us are available as it were. So he had this idea of checking the nightlife for Mrs Right.
I've always been dead against nightclubs. In my view, there's nothing but trouble there. But my mate, he's more positive than me lets say. And he's also blind. Totally blind. Which really is the only reason I said I'd go out with him. I couldnt live with myself if anything happened to him.
Bar number one: we'd been in half an hour, and a drunkern bar fight broke out. Bar number two: we didnt even go in, because my mate felt it was too busy for a blind person to be in. And I agreed.
And to cap it all, bar number 3: I ended up arresting someone for trying to steal my mate's wallet. They weren't expecting to run into an off duty prison officer lol.
The morral of the story being: You can point out the pitfalls of a particular thing all you want. But sometimes you just have to let people go and learn things for themselves.