The Octopy Podcast – Make Your Meetings Suck Less
Why facilitated meetings?
Equal voice. Improve quality and atmosphere of meetings. Value voice. Give confidence to everyone. Improve efficiency. Lessening drama.
How to do so?
Start with the needs of people/teams first. Ask and hear. Get everyone on the same page: every team member.
Holacracy way?
Structured agenda and goals needed? Not at all, according to Paul. Focus on the good we try to accomplish, help to have productive meetings than focusing on structured team meetings. Treat everyone equally, whether inside or outside organizations. Be empathetic under the needs of each person as a human. Don’t make any assumptions. What is the particular problem? Accept the fear to gain clarity with someone else.
Know the duration of meetings. Deal with items you listed. What is left? Know what it is the time for each speaks out loud per participant on each item. Let them know when you cut them off—1 hour for 6 items to get updates, status, for instance. Make sure before the start of the beginning, know what the role of each person is.
Best facilitators?
Those who calm tensions. Empathetic. Understand where the place people come from. Be objective. Be the referee on the playfield. Provide and set clear expectations for myself and the teams for self-awareness for the participants of the meetings. Ask for feedback. Create empathy on the other side.
Virtual meetings?
Harder than F2F. Cut people off on Zoom/Teams/Meet: easier to do that than F2F. Set expectations so that it works better for you. Ask in video calls to see everyone if all are not there so that you can know who is talking, or at least if the camera is off; you can ask them or address what they say. Ask who is there at the meeting.
Let the text chat box open to all. Then, enable to chat 1-1 so that it doesn’t interrupt the whole meeting.
Deal privately with misbehaviours of participants, missed actions/items from people who present stuff.
Holacracy?
The integrative decision-making process. IDM. Concept of holacracy for facilitation: notice the problem people have. Try to solve it. Go back & forth with the team until you find the solution. IDM is a starting point to learn how to facilitate meetings. Works for any work styles and needs—room for trials.
Curious Advantage podcast – episode 14 on curiosity and serendipity
Serendipity is about spotting, discussing, and connecting the dots. Interesting thoughts. Let serendipity do its magic! Serendipity abounds.
Episode 17: The Virtual Excellence Show
A team is not enough to connect to diversity and to enhance serendipity. To develop future skills and mindset for distributed work. Here come networks and global communities in addition to work teams to make sense of the world collectively and on our own #PKMastery
The Mentoring One – Women of Learning
What does an uplifting learning relationship/experience look like? In the podcast ‘The Women of Learning‘ this week, I heard one of my network nodes: Taruna Goël, conversing with André Watts discussing mentoring. Read on my notes.
The Learning Hack podcast LH #25 Tool Time
Sensemaking, wayfinding, learning inside and outside the workplace, from home, remotely while using digital tools. Interesting chat with Jane Hart on learning daily in many different ways.
The Learning Hack podcast LH #32 Beyond Learning
Wayfinding is about finding fellow seekers or explorers. To be ahead of the journey from the apprentice. Follow those who push ahead with their expertise. The more diverse group of experienced and thinkers to be not in an echo chamber. Find those who are ahead of you to learn faster and better.
Integrate self-directed/personal learning & social learning. L&D has difficulty letting go of control as there is no learning objectives, checkmarks, program run.
Think about complexity, complex problem, complex adaptive systems. Keep learning. Probe, sense and observe. Marinate in complex adaptive systems. See what the heck is going on.
Find a middle ground on what people can talk about together. Understand where people come from. Develop a relationship, trust establish to be able to discuss deeply on topics. Follow people who share their knowledge and perspectives you have no experience or clue about.
Knowledge was found in libraries and librarians. Now we are always connected and besides our world—the new world since only 20 years. Find new ways to do it. Enlightenment. Metamodernity society.
Learning Uncut 69 – Modern Professional Development Approaches
What are your self-directed and social learning ways to take control of your professional development and make a leap in 2021/beyond?
Tune in. Actionable insights, shifts and resources from workplace learning mavens respectively on modern workplace learning, working and thinking out loud, and personal knowledge mastery.
