Friday, September 30, 2011

Constructive Criticism?

How do you tell someone you really don't like his ideas? I am finding this to be a problem with me recently. This person is a great worker and he really loves to try new things, but I do have more experience than him in our area of work. Likewise, he LOVES to redesign things I spent long hours to design in the first place. He always calls what I made "cluttered" or "boring." Nothing is up to his standards.

I really just want to tell him to leave things alone. I know we have different styles and I know I don't make perfect things. However, he needs to let go of his own ideas and just go with what I spent so long to create in the first place (especially when I was asked to design the layout, not him). 

I feel that whatever he changes keeps a consistent theme, which could be good or bad. In this case, it isn't the best. He makes many grammatical errors in his redesigns that I have to fix. Likewise, he has one style he LOVES to use that gets old. I know he is in J59 now, which makes him a design expert (that is sarcasm), but he needs to let go of changing things that do not need to be changed and do what he is assigned.

How do I constructively tell him he should just work on what he is assigned and when he gets to my position, he can make the executive decision to change things?

I would like to think I am opinionated, but when it comes to something like this, I do not want to hurt his feelings.

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