Integrative Leadership Strategies
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Three Mistakes that Undermine Accountability on Teams
Accountability comes through trust and systems. Three ways to hold your teams accountable.
Build Your Executive Presence In Virtual Meetings
Your online presence can either distract from your message or add to it. Upgrade your set up with these tips.
The Downside of Having an Open Discussion
"Let's just have an open discussion!" This is a well-intentioned statement that we hear a lot in teams.
There are a couple ways it could go wrong, though.
Let’s start with this: what do we even mean by 'open'? The intent of calling an open discussion “open” is to encourage participants to share openly. But it also tends to refer to the process, or way the forum is conducted, like 'open mike,' and there’s rarely full openness in what is shared.
The Six Ws of Meetings
At any point in your meeting, are the participants in the meeting clear on the “who, what, where, when, why and how” of the meeting? If you can cover these, your meeting will be much more inclusive and much more likely to succeed. Let's go through each.
A Simple Way to Bring Focus and Calm to Important Meetings
Have you been in an important meeting during which you sat on the edge of your seat, trying to jump in at the right time, only to – when you finally do – get the floor swept away again by someone else? This is stressful and anxiety-provoking, and these emotions have the negative effect of impeding our best thinking.
Five Simple Upgrades For Your Meetings
If meetings have been a drag in 2021, and you're resigned to the fact that there are too many, the five tips below will help you make your meetings more productive and efficient so you can have fewer of them.
How to Get Relaxed Attentiveness in Your Team
Relaxed attentiveness is what you’ll see in a team that is doing its best thinking together. Team members exhibit a state of relaxation, not anxiety, and a calm attentiveness — they’re not multitasking.
Tapping the Wisdom of the Group
I am just coming off facilitating a virtual offsite for an executive leadership team where I'm reminded of how much wisdom a group inherently contains.
The Power of a Check-In Process at Team Meetings
When my daughter attended her first preschool, the almost- and barely-three-year-olds would, upon arrival, take a photo of themselves that had been glued to a magnet and place it in either the 'yes' or 'no' column to a question of the day.