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Managing Meetings: How to Drive Productivity and Success

Tom Spencer

Time is a valuable resource and each meeting should contribute to the overall project goals. Share this information with participants in advance, allowing them to come prepared. Craft a detailed agenda that outlines key discussion points, topics that will be covered, and time allocations.

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Where I Think “Agile” is Headed, Part 2: Where Does Management Fit?

Johanna Rothman

That's a cultural change to self-managing teams. That's why we need managers to understand how to create and cultivate an agile culture. Managers Create and Refine the Culture. The biggest problem I see in feedback loops is when managers think in resource efficiency instead of flow efficiency.

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Mastering the Art of Leading Remote Work Teams

Rick Conlow

Experts believe other factors relate to this information such as a stagnant economy, worker burnout, “quiet quitting in response to toxic work environments, and inflation. Bottom-line, companies with people-first culture led by Servant Leadership principles outperform their competitors.

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Why Minimize Management Decision Time

Johanna Rothman

Under one condition: How much information do you ask the teams to deliver so you can decide? I still see so many teams spend weeks at a time estimating projects they won't start for years. ” Why Management Decision Time Matters. The managers lose their context to make a decision quickly. (See

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CC’ing the Boss on Email Makes Employees Feel Less Trusted

Harvard Business

To make matters worse, my findings indicated that when the supervisor was copied in often, employees felt less trusted, and this feeling automatically led them to infer that the organizational culture must be low in trust overall, fostering a culture of fear and low psychological safety.

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Do You Know How Each Person on Your Team Likes to Work?

Harvard Business

When we travel to a country that has a different culture than ours, many of us spend time learning ways to communicate and connect with the people there. Similarly, when you first become a manager, it’s helpful to spend time up front connecting and creating a common language with your team. Marion Barraud for HBR.

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Polite Ways to Decline a Meeting Invitation

Harvard Business

Is there background information available to inform participants in advance? If the value of the meeting isn’t clear from the invitation, reply back with a few open-ended questions before making your decision: “Could you please provide some additional information on the agenda? ” Can I recommend someone else?

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