How to interact with people?
Im in my first year of uni and I feel like no matter how much I try to be straightforward with my intent of non-threatening people are always assuming the worst of me. I'll try to keep this brief and just address the main outline:
I'm doing a group project and I was trying to give some constructive criticism and one of my team members started accusing me big time of devaluing their work and being narcissistic.
I cannot stress enough how much I don't care about trying to attack you OR your work. I just want to know if you need help bc personally I couldn't make heads or tails of your section. Literally just want a good grade and this team just wants to submit the project the second everyone has something down without doing any discussion.
Honestly, trying to get some insight because I feel like this always happens. I have some decent achievements to my name but I feel like bringing that up out of the blue would REALLY make me narcissistic. How do I build rapport with people in these scenarios? What should I do overall?
nobody likes criticism, most people won't accept criticism from someone on the same 'level' as they are.
if you don't care what you think about what they think of you then do it in a roundabout way (like in my image below). you don't need to say it to their faces. just delete all their work and give plausible reason for the change.
basically, if ......
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17 10,2024
If you followed all these steps of constructive criticism and they still wanna bitch, then I say call in your prof for their input. At that point it's outa your hands, your teammates are freeloaders and are probably actively doing shit work without effort so someone in the team will pick up slack. Make sure to get the big person involved so they ca......
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17 10,2024
if im gonna criticize someone i give them a genuine compliment right before so they feel uncomfortable calling me out lol
in group projects i dont straight up go "this is wrong/you couldve done this better" i just say "do you mind if we change this to xxxx because xxxxx" and most of the time theyre ok with it. asking for advice and making little ch......
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17 10,2024
