Design Life

168: When your ideas aren't considered

Episode Summary

How do you deal with the frustration of people not accepting your ideas? When you share an idea and people brush it off or they don’t agree that it is a good idea, how do you deal with that in such a way that your team understand your disappointment but don’t mark you as a sore loser. In this episode we talk about how we communicate our disappointment and frustrations with our teams, and how sometimes listening can reveal an unexpected solution.

Episode Notes

How do you deal with the frustration of people not accepting your ideas? When you share an idea and people brush it off or they don’t agree that it is a good idea, how do you deal with that in such a way that your team understand your disappointment but don’t mark you as a sore loser. In this episode we talk about how we communicate our disappointment and frustrations with our teams, and how sometimes listening can reveal an unexpected solution. 

01.10 – Check in

04.40 – Listener’s letter

11.55 – What to do if this happens to you

17.34 – Accept your idea didn’t make the cut

22.50 – Listen & Learn

25.55 – What to do if your ideas are being shot down more often than not