High impact meetings and friction free collaboration - learn with FewerFasterBolder
My research shows that people want ‘a fair swap’ when they go to a meeting.
Crucially relative to the time they give up and the cognitive effort...
Meeting patterns have worn a DEEP groove into our corporate psyche.
If you’ve tried to improve your meeting culture and not managed to make a big dent,...
Leaders, how’s your coaching?
There is no more powerful place to develop your coaching leadership style* than in a meeting.
What you say and do in a...
Stop winging it. Start scaffolding.
With zero structure, meetings become circular, inefficient or dominated by a handful of people.
With too much structure,...
I see you in back-to-back meetings all day.
I see you hello!-ing and how-are-you?-ing on the hour, every hour.
I see you starting the meeting. But not really...
Start the week by getting out of your team's way.
If you’re invited to the same meeting as someone who reports to you, ask yourself:
Why am I...
I don’t really like conflict.
It makes me feel a bit sick, especially in meetings where any disagreement is played out in full view of everyone.
But...
If one thing in one meeting is annoying you…
~ Wait, ONE thing? ~
One thing for now.
The simplest, lowest friction way to change is just to reflect on...
When trust is shaky, there is a simple, high integrity way to develop it.
Most people don’t do it.
Here it is, with four examples.
When you meet with...
Few of us enjoy having a tense stand off in a meeting. It's exhausting. It slows work down. It makes teams perform poorly.
But here's the thing.
...
May I introduce you to scaffolding? Supportive rules that underpin faster, bolder meetings...
Part of reason some meetings are frustrating,...
Tribes are how human society formed to survive safely in a dangerous world. A hundred people in a tribe could take turns keeping watch and defending the...