Meetings are the lifeblood of many organizations. Want to know the health of your organization? Examine your meetings. Conducting surveys and interviewing staff members are tactics that might give you some smoke signals. But, if you want to find the fires, take a hard look at your meetings.
Read MoreI walked into the meeting and spotted an open seat. It was just about to begin. I didn’t recognize anyone, but that wasn’t a surprise. The subject line of the meeting read “Project Kickoff” and I hadn’t recognized the names in the invite. I nodded a polite hello to the person next to me. The meeting leader suggested we “go around the room and introduce ourselves,” adding “I’m not sure if everyone in the meeting knows each other, so…”.
Read MoreIt wasn’t until the 60 seconds of breaktime shadow boxing to the Rocky theme that I realized how different this was from all the other remote workshops I’d led in the past. People’s kids, pets and roommates were shadow boxing on camera. Someone’s wife walked in on him shadow boxing in the middle of the workday and broke out in laughter. We were halfway through day 2 of our fully remote workshop in the middle of a pandemic and we’d broken through to something new.
Read MoreGiven the current situation around the globe, you may be reading many articles about remote working. Many of them have great insights. In this article, I will share my own personal experiences and attempt to share some very practical advice, which you may not see in those articles.
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