Conference50min
Help! I hate my team mate!
The talk explores common team conflicts when new members join or working styles clash, leading to mistrust, disrespect, and demotivation. It shares real experiences and practical ways teams handle these problems, helping participants understand their options when cooperation breaks down.
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Jessica SiewertHet ConsultancyHuis
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Thursday, October 8, 17:40-18:30
TBA 4
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Everybody now and then comes into a new team, or someone else comes into theirs. More often than not, cooperation does not go seamlessly straight away. Sometimes this evens out by itself along the way. But in many occasions, it does not. Ways of working could be different. Something one values a lot, may not be valued at all by another, creating conflict. One may criticise or get criticised and things get uncomfortable. Teams may split into "camps" or one person just never agrees with the others. Team members may feel stepped over, pushed aside or misunderstood. If this goes on for too long, team members start to feel generally disrespected and demotivated. Then there are cases one member feels another is not qualified, or just a bully. This goes beyond forming and storming, this becomes a (team-wide) problem. In this talk you will see you are not the only one experiencing these challenges. You will hear experiences on solving these kind of cases (or not!), get an idea of how others deal with it and what your options are if you ever find yourself in the weeds (again). In any case, you probably will be surprised by yourself or your team mate in one way or another...
Jessica Siewert
Jessica is a software developer specialised in micro services in Scala and Kotlin. She has worked in Finance, logistics and since a few years, she has devoted herself to contribute to the Dutch Energy Transition. For this reason she joined Het ConsultancyHuis four years ago. Jessica has a great sense of team building and working relationships. To this end, during her 14 years in the field, she has taken several training programmes and has fulfilled multiple roles as scrum master of teams. Even when she is not the scrum master, she takes pride in making significant contributions to the maturity of the team. In addition, in order to provide the users and people in The Netherlands a better experience regarding the enormous upgrade of the Dutch energy network, she enjoys working together with neighbouring teams. She likes to share her experiences in both engineering and working relationships with her fellow crafts(wo)men.