A Simple System to Take Meeting Notes Like Top Strategy Consultants Do
Most people never learn how to take notes effectively. Yet note-taking is a game changer. Here I share my template to take notes like strategy consultants
Silence Speaks: The Impact of a Pause in Public Speaking
A week ago, I wrote about the transformative power of a pause. This concept sparked interest, particularly regarding the use of pauses in presentations to replace distracting, annoying, and meaningless filler words.
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How to stop wasting your time—and everyone else’s—in meetings
Meetings are a necessary evil, but sometimes, they seem less necessary and more evil than they have to be. “Meetings should be like salt—a spice sprinkled carefully to enhance a dish,” says Basecamp founder and CEO, Jason Fried. “Too much salt destroys a dish. Too many meetings destroy morale and motivation.” That’s because excessive meetings tend to be draining on employees and waste company time.
Vital Signs: Shorter meetings but longer days – how COVID-19 has changed the way we work
Employers have long feared that working from home makes employees less productive. An analysis of 3 million workers in 16 cities during lockdowns suggests the opposite.
One of the most straightforward paths to happiness at work is to fight against the scourge of time-consuming, unproductive meetings at every opportunity.
Vi lägger mer tid på möten – färre pauser efter pandemin - Godmorgon världen
Pandemins digitala mötesutveckling har gjort att vi lägger mer tid på möten och får färre naturliga pauser mellan dem.I Sverige saknar 50 procent av alla ...
"[W]e found that employee productivity was 71% higher when meetings were reduced by 40%. Rather than a schedule being the boss, [employees] owned their to-do lists and held themselves accountable, which consequently increased their satisfaction by 52%." But wait, there's more...
Our beliefs about how we feel we need to “show up” for others can lead to extreme collaborative overload and burnout. For example, a desire to help others can lead us to jump into a project or debate without being asked. A need for status can prod us to drive collaborations back to ourselves. And fear can block us from saying “no” to a collaborative request that we know we can’t handle. The first step in reducing collaborative overload is becoming aware internal triggers like these. This article introduces nine common beliefs to reflect on; guarding against them will help you reclaim your time and redirect your efforts to where your contributions can add the most value.