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A Guide to Escaping Meeting Overload (opens the original)
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If you’re reading this on Thursday morning, it’s probably not too late to register for today’s workshop on asking powerful questions using Appreciative Inquiry. We start at 11 am Central. Free registration here.Do you really need to be in this meeting?The man standing in front of the whiteboard is animated. He’s drawn a day’s schedule on the board and marks each hour with a meeting.“When do I do my work, though?” an exasperated man in the audience asks, pointing toward
The Myth of the Perfect Conversation (opens the original)
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Over the last month, I’ve spent a lot of time looking at conversation transcripts for a work project. The transcripts, which are downloaded from video conferencing software, can be difficult to read. Usually one person speaks for only a few seconds before someone else speaks over them, often to offer a simple affirmation like “yeah,” or “mm-hmm.”In the first transcript I opened just now, to get a quick estimate, “yeah” was said 43 times and “mm’hmm” 54 times, in a 50 minute call. But these numbe
The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Health is Connect With Someone You Care About (opens the original)
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Let’s imagine you sign up to be part of a research study—anything for science, right?For 14 evenings in a row, a researcher gives you a call and asks a series of questions that are something like these:What did you do with other people today?Have you experienced any tension or conflict with another person in the last day?Did anyone hug you today?What moods did you experience during the day?For those two weeks, participants lived their normal lives and answered
The Romantic Gift of a Good Question (opens the original)
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This week, Cliff and I are celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary. I have no idea how it’s possible to have reached that milestone already … but if you check out the “then and now” photo below, you’ll see some time has definitely passed.<source type="image/webp"
How to Listen Before You Lead (Especially in the First 90 Days) (opens the original)
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The average American changes jobs 12 times over their career, according to research from the Bureau of Labor Statistics that looked at the career trajectory of older Boomers.If those statistics hold true for younger generations in the workforce, that means, on average, we will recalibrate our work and our work relationships every 4 years.So how do we do that well?That question was on the mind of a mid-career leader, Daniel, who reached out to me a few weeks ago. Daniel is moving his family acros
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