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How teams can address dominant voices without creating conflict

Our design team has one person who dominates every critique session and the rest of us have learned to just nod along but I know there are better ideas that never get surface and I'm worried that speaking up will create conflict that makes the dynamic even worse.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

One person runs over every meeting, and staying quiet feels safer than the fight that speaking up would start.

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