This week's question:
How will you tap into the wisdom of your entire team? What will you do in your next meeting to ensure that everyone gets a chance to be heard? What new techniques will you try?
(Share your great ideas on my blog.)
Monday, September 26, 2011
HEAR 'EM ALL
In my experience there are two types of participants at most meetings - those who start talking and keep talking until hopefully, something intelligent comes out of their mouths (I’m one of those!). And there are those who wait until they have carefully considered their response before wading into the discussion. That creates a problem. We often miss the wisdom of the second group because the meeting moves to new subjects before their contributions see the light of day.
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What if at the beginning of meetings we presented a check-in question - something simple like, 'How was your evening?' or 'What's something new for you that we may not know about?' or 'What book are you reading right now?'
In meetings I find it useful to know about each persons individual interests and pet projects. Then, each person is responsible for talking about and updating everyone on her/his projects. S/he will express his/her wisdom based on personal interest levels. Not everyone is keenly interested in all topics that are discussed in a meeting. Before moving on to a new agenda topics the meeting chairperson can get confirmation from those who haven't spoken on the topic thus far before moving on to new agenda items. When individuals are specifically asked for their opinion, they will express their ideas if they sufficiently interested in the topic and they have nothing new to add.
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