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How to improve your meetings

Halo Psych

And one of the things they have the most in common is a frustration with meetings. This includes those coming as guests to present at a board meeting, as well as some board members, themselves. People not contributing during the meeting. Poor chairing, meaning the same people dominate each meeting and take up the most airtime.

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Using Experiments to Launch New Products

Harvard Business

One simple and often overlooked way for larger companies to experiment is to randomize the introduction of new products across a set of markets. To see how this can be valuable, consider how Uber rolled out its Express Pool service in 2018. Unsurprisingly, Express Pool created new kinds of trip matches.

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20 Qualities of a Consulting Rock Star

Successful Independent Consulting

Here’s to a prosperous 2018! Places all work products and recommendations in the context of the client’s environment. A skilled facilitator — Easily manages groups with disparate views and backgrounds and achieves stated meeting/project goals. Ensures ownership for follow-up actions and meeting outcomes.

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Chances Are, You Are Not as Good at Active Listening as You Think

Organizational Talent Consulting

Being heard creates psychological safety in relationships and is vital to establishing productive conflict and trust. Rushing from meeting to meeting leaves most leaders feeling trapped with little time to listen. Listening eases tensions and makes productive conflict work where resentment exists. Kourmousi, N.,

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Agile Transformation: More Possible Organizational Measurements, Part 5

Johanna Rothman

The first Possible Measurements post focuses on product throughput measurements. I’m going to suggest one more thing: fewer not-so-useful meetings. Meetings are the bane of everyone’s existence. We run from meeting to meeting with barely a bio break. Status meetings? I want to see that.

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Is Shared Identity a Missing Link to Psychological Safety and Maximizing Potential?

Organizational Talent Consulting

Academic research suggests that the benefits of shared identity include: Productive conflict. In conversations, we tend to find communication more comfortable and productive with those we consider “us” versus “them.” Try asking the following questions in your next team or one-to-one meeting: Why is this team important to you?

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Holiday Human-Capital Culling Could Cost

Harmonious Workplaces

Everywhere you look online during the 2023 holiday season, you’ll see three things: A ridiculous amount of ads for products you don’t need or want… but might buy anyway. Job seekers report on peer-support calls and during networking meetings that they have had their interviews postponed or canceled. References Indeed & Glassdoor.