Week one at Blindfeed
At Blindfeed we want to help teams around the world become stronger than the sum of their parts through meaningful feedback.
Because NO team can create meaningful work without trust
Teams that show high performance and trust can communicate, reflect and feedback each other. We’re creating a healthy environment by understanding ourselves and opening up to interact with each other in a manner that can produce the trust a productive team needs.
So the first week started with
Un-flatpacking and pour some coffee
First task we were trying to accomplish as a team, un-faltpacking the freshly delivered desks and make the space into somewhere we’d love to working at. When it comes to Ikea-inspired snuggles, we step down and have a cup of(in-house) freshly ground pour over coffee.
Analysis Big Five Aspect Scales result
A personality test that further elaborating upon the big five personality traits test model. The test enable each of us to realise our own role.
Creating user manual & align our team values
We discussed what’s valuable to the team and ultimately creating a purpose. recognise the possible obstacles and act on it.
Vision & strategy and 10 years goal setting
After a few days, we were more comfortable to express ourselves by sharing different visions on the companies strategies. We got into light conflict, but this is essential because it helped us to create a set of shared goals and methods to proceed. Agree and build on each other point of view.
What have I learnt?
Give constructive criticism
I used to find it difficult to put my opinions forward but this week I’ve been invited to define our vision and strategy. I was being challenged in a respectful way and that really pushed my thinking forward and made me think about how to evaluate my ideas in other ways.
ADJECTIVE
Serving a useful purpose; tending to build up.
Asking why
We were constantly asking questions that would put ourselves in the mind of the others in the team. Because If we don’t understand the problems that we are trying to solve, how can we give useful feedback?
