Tips for Running Emotionally Intelligent Meetings – From Appreciative Inquiry and Elsewhere
Tips from Appreciative Inquiry and other sources like NLP for running effective meetings
Do Your Meetings Suck? Here’s How to Make Them Better
I’m quite choosy about recommending other people’s work, but sometimes I come across some tips that are so good I just have to share them with you. So today’s post is about an episode of the ReThinking podcast with organizational psychologist Adam Grant (note: I don’t have any association with the podcast, but it will
How To Use Appreciative Inquiry Without A Formal 5D Cycle (3): Appreciative Team Meetings
Think of all the team meetings you’ve attended in your working life. Chances are that they didn’t represent a high point in your career. Leaving aside the basic fact that managers tend to like meetings a lot more than ‘makers’ (programmers, technicians etc) who tend to view meetings as interruptions to getting their work done,
How To Stop Your Boss From Inadvertently Screwing Up Your Meeting
I wonder if you’ve found yourself in a situation like this? Recently one of my former Appreciative Inquiry students called me to get some advice. She was running an ideas generation meeting, using Appreciative Inquiry as a broad framework. Her boss, who has supported her and let her get on with new initiatives, was invited
Meetings – thought for the day
In most meetings, pride or caution still forbids one to say what one feels most deeply.
– Theodore Zeldin, An Intimate History Of Humanity
I think he’s talking about ‘meetings’ in the sense of everyday human encounters, but it’s probably at least as true about business meetings.