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Daniel Brady

You're so right about needing to approach this with empathy and armed with the right language πŸ’―

Engineers are often very pedantic, whether by nature or because of the nature of our work, and I know that for me attitude and word-choice have a big impact on how I respond to the information being presented to me.

It seems like in Elena's situation, the marketing team is preparing these project briefs, and I think it's safe to assume they have varying levels of technical background. How can we help them get better at presenting these briefs to us effectively?

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Jean-Michel πŸ•΅πŸ»β€β™‚οΈ Fayard

How can we help them get better at empathy?

I would be glad to tell it if it was possible.
But there is, in fact, no shortcut.
To develop empathy, they need to talk with and listen for a long time to real world developers.

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Daniel Brady

Definitely agree there is no shortcut, I wasn't asking for one πŸ‘ working together and imagining each other more complexly is the only way I know of to get better at approaching communication with empathy.