How to Prevent Burnout when Working From Home
Working more hours yet have less time to get our work done. On calls, Zoom, or Teams all day. Rear end feels welded to the …
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Leading in Different Times #2: Reinforce Clarity
This is the second in a series of Play notes about leading well during different times such as this one. “This not that. Here not …
Generate Results in Meetings
We might push, posture, protect, or prattle to get results in a meeting. Or we can let go, listen, learn, and lean in. Which aprroach …
How Not To Lose Track of Takeaways
In all the busyness, it’s easy to lose track of what we have agreed to do for each other, that is of our takeaways. Here …
Meeting Frustration
We have meetings for several good reasons: to stay aware of each other’s work, solve immediate problems, move projects forward, set strategies, and build trust. …
To Have a Productive Meeting
One way to have a productive meeting is to create a compelling focus by posing a question for the attendees to answer. Then we can …
Meeting Hell and Meeting Heaven
Meetings can be hellish. But how much better would our meetings go if we were genuinely curious about the people and their work? What if …
How to Break Out of the Activity Over Results Trap
It’s very easy for us to fall into the “Activity Over Results” trap. In this trap, we unconsciously judge ourselves and others by how much …
When Meetings Are Painful
Most meetings serve two distinct functions: to track and to choose. These functions don’t mix well. In a tracking meeting, we check progress, coordinate with …
Too Much Email, Too Many Meetings
Meetings and emails can certainly overwhelm us. Each one represents another request–or twelve!–to do something. How can this keep going? How can we possibly get …