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Meetings have proliferated—now everyone just wants them to end. “Sometimes it’s just someone talking nonsense about something”

Two years of remote work has brought more meetings, but no solutions to making them more effective. A new study reveals the eye-opening costs.

The new work calendar isn’t about office or home, it’s about three meeting types and the conditions that serve them best. Transactional gatherings move work forward; relational gatherings strengthen connections; and adaptive gatherings help us address complex or sensitive topics. As transactional gatherings are easier to conduct online, relational and adaptive gatherings have become relatively scarce. Now is a great time to reintroduce and redesign these gatherings, as all had flaws even before the pandemic. The author outlines the best conditions for all three and explains why each needs to have its own space and place.

More freedom leads to more candor.

Meetings glut our schedules--but you can easily cut the ones that are driven by false urgency or information sharing.

Six biases that lead us to have too many meetings — and how to overcome them.

As leaders, it might be our first instinct to make our voice heard early and often. Great leaders know, however, that reserving your opinion until the ... 64 comments on LinkedIn

Strategies for engagement

It’s so tempting, but it can wreak havoc on your productivity. Here’s how to find your focus instead.

A bit of banter can make a big difference.

The rule of awkward silence has always been valuable. But in a world of instant gratification, it's more useful than ever.

Joe Hart at Dale Carnegie

Five research-based tips.

Just this week, I found myself leading an all-day webinar on antiracism for a group of over 100 Vermont educators. I was originally due to co-lead the session in person with the nation’s foremost expert on poverty, Dr.

My years of looking through the camera at people talking have taught me a few things.

A short manifesto about the future of online interaction [Feel free to share.] The world is changing. Faster and more suddenly than most of us expected. And beyond the fraught health emergencies th…

Daniel Pink and Steven Rogelberg

Dan Ariely

Ed Batista

Brett McCarty

10 quick tips to ensure your meetings aren't time-wasters.

Quiet Revolution is excited to spread the word about Morten Hansen’s new book, Great at Work. The author wrote the following blog post for the Quiet Revolution...

Without offending anyone.

As companies move to the “Talent Cloud,” the future of teamwork will be challenged. Conference calls fail. Consider a recent study by Intercall, which revealed what people are doing while on conference calls. Yikes! This segues nicely into the obligatory “some of the stranger places respondents admitted to being ...

We want our team to speak up and tell us when they don't think things are going in the right direction. However, it's not that the courage to speak up is too low, it's that the barriers to speaking up are too high. Here are four practices.

“Swing for the fences...”