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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Frustrated with team member
This co-worker of mine either doesn't provide feeback or does and then months later objects to things that he had ample opportunity to review earlier. It is really frustrating 'cause I do want his input, but I want it when I ask for it not months later when I am trying to move the project along. This really slows down my work cause I have to go back and start from the beginning everytime he does this (usually the whole group agrees with his comments). I have written this into his peer review and do say something to him about it when he does it, but he keeps doing it...
Re: Frustrated with team member
Our little Irish rose came to us on March 5, 2010
Don't drink the water.
Disclaimer: I am not an MD. Please don't PM me with pregnancy-related questions. Ask your doctor.
Are these projects you're in charge of or ones that have been assigned to the entire team? Can you set up a couple meetings with him for initial and final review of whatever portions he has say over? That way he has to address everything within a reasonable timeframe.
I think the only thing to do is be very clear up front about the deadline for feedback. "Kindly provide any feedback by Friday the 13th of June. Please note that non-responses will be considered an agreement with the proposed approach. Thank you in advance for your timely feedback and for helping ensure the project timeline stays on track. Your input is greatly appreciated."
Then when he comes back 2 months after the deadline forward him the original email with apologies but note that the deadline was very clear and unfortunately the project has moved beyond the point of incorporating late feedback. If it continues to be an issue, elevate to your manager explaining that feedback received after the requested deadline has caused your project to be delayed. Either the manager won't care about wasted resources, in which case there is nothing you can do, or the manager will step in and back you up in your insistence that feedback be submitted by the requested deadline.
With your manager, the key is to demonstrating the impact that the late feedback has caused: wasted resources in terms of time spent work on a project that you'll have to go back and redo, and delays in project completion.
I don't mean peer review, I mean have you had a meeting with your supervisor and said, "I'm having issues with X and would like to discuss how best to handle it"?
Peer review is an incredibly passive way to discuss issues with a supervisor IMO.
Our little Irish rose came to us on March 5, 2010
Don't drink the water.
Disclaimer: I am not an MD. Please don't PM me with pregnancy-related questions. Ask your doctor.
Thanks for all your great advice. I have discussed with my boss, but she would defend this individual to the ends of the earth. She thinks very highly of him despite the high level of negative feedback that many of his co-workers have given. I do always give him a deadline and in fact it was my boss that suggested setting deadlines for him, but to him they don't mean much. It's like every time he looks at something he reacts like it's the first time he's seen it and doesn't even recall his initail opinions...I guess that he is just flakey and I am suffering. Thanks again. Oh, and I am responsibile for this project, but it requires everyone's input because it is our program risk assessment and plan.