In this next installment of our mini-series on running better meetings based on what I’m learning as a facilitator lately, we’re going to focus on meeting formats.
It’s a conversation that I’m really sick of, but it keeps coming up in my work, so I guess it needs to come up in my writing too. Because it’s a decision that can make or break your meetings.
Continue reading “A Topic I’m Tired Of”This week, I’m shifting gears from “curated content” to “facilitation tips from the trenches,” to catch you up on what I’m learning in the rooms I’m leading.
As a facilitator, I find it much easier to help groups articulate their divergent ideas than to converge around a single idea. So maybe I’m just taking the easier road, but I find myself delaying the search for convergence these days. Here’s why:
Continue reading “Less Consensus Makes for Better Meetings”I had the privilege of running a session with the University of Calgary’s Faculty of Science last week. It was called “Lead like a Scientist,” and we explored skills that most scientists possess that also serve them well as leaders. One is experimentation.
My favourite go-to for this topic is Adam Grant’s Think Again, but I’d also point you to Adam Alter’s chapter on experimentation in Anatomy of a Breakthrough.
Continue reading “Curated Content on Experimentation”Old narratives about change are themselves slow to change. Although we might rationally acknowledge that change is constant, emotionally we continue to resist and resent it, subconsciously waiting for things to settle down and ‘get back to normal.’
Have a look at Nadya Zhexembayeva’s recent piece in the Harvard Business Review. It describes both the pace of change and workers’ unhappiness with it. A couple of elements jumped off the page at me:
Continue reading ” Curated Content on Adaptability”In this second instalment in our series on “pieces my readers should read,” I’m turning my attention to trust. If you’ve ever tried to function well in a low-trust environment, at work or at home, then you know how critical trust is to our optimal performance. It’s said that trust takes years to build and seconds to break—but here are some recent resources that might help accelerate that building process:
Continue reading “Curated Content on Building Trust”
