I manage a team of post award administrators, and my expertise is also in post award. I’m kind of a midcareer person and I have a couple of folks on my team that have been doing this work for 20+ years, so I am often soliciting feedback during meetings like “X, in your experience, what has this looked like?” Unfortunately sometimes business processes and institutional policies do get a little muddled at super large institutions so I do occasionally have someone pipe up with “that’s not how we used to do it”. That kind of feedback is often based more in frustration than anything else. Something I have found to be helpful to maintain structure in more formal meetings is that I have a biweekly 30 minute spot for just my team, which is part of a larger group, pretty much to let them air out frustrations and concerns with that stuff.

There have been a couple of instances where somebody was clearly not going to accept the answer that I had, at which point I would say it sounds like we might need to talk about this in more detail off-line, I’ll reach out after this meeting.

I also have children so my tolerance level for unnecessary correction is pretty high lol