Your team needs more impactful meetings whether you are in-person, virtual or hybrid. Too many teams get trapped in boring, ineffective and combative discussions. Dialogue that engages minds and hearts is critical.
SHOW NOTES
1:47 – Jason introduces Season 4 episode 23 of the podcast. Welcome back to the podcast on corporate culture and leadership and thank you for listening. We engage thought leaders like CEOs, CFOs, managers, VPs, directors, and more for this podcast. We wish to create content that engages your mind and heart and allows you to step back and think and add some positivity to your life. This podcast is about the impact of meetings in the workplace and how they should create impact and not be a negative thing for your team.
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3:05 – We can’t control everything but what we can control is our response. Still a lot of work to do but wanted to remind the audience what is within our control is the temperature we create in the organizations and teams we work with. If you have a suggestion, please send to info@jasonvbarger.com
5:10 – Jason talks about the previous podcast a conversation with author, Chris Dyer of Remote Work and how important it is to be engaging, creative, and intentional to engage the hearts and minds of people.
We need to raise the bar on how we do virtual remote meetings.
9:40 – We need to raise the bar on virtual remote meetings. To actually engage with people on the mission, vision, and values is essential.
12:35 – It will be really important to improve in-person, virtual, and hybrid meetings. What are the strategic objectives on our plate, we need to make time to have the right conversation, with the right people, are we focused on the right priority. This how we gather support for each other and stimulate progress. Conversations are the currency for change.
16:40 – Founder of WhitePineMountain.com and Jason had coffee once and Doug Smith puts out a newsletter where recently he talks about the word “discussion” and the word “dialogue”. Discussion is a Latin word meaning to shake or smash apart. This means a debate or who is going to win. The word dialogue is a Greek word meaning, meaning flowing through. Or two people coming together to build a pool of shared meaning.
23:10 – A high-level discussion of how people may come to meetings with the spirit of dialogue vs discussion. Take advantage of the wisdom of the crowd to win together. We understand that we differ and actually listen to understand and value others to find agreement, then we can find the solution we need. This is self-fulfilling because it also teaches and flexes the muscles with the spirit of coming together to grow and achieve things together.
27:45 – How do we think about having these impactful meetings, shared meaning and vision is at the heart of this not debate. How we communicate, how we develop matters. These conversations is so important for organizations and team members to be able to work together and grow. Over the next years to come, our places of work will help us learn how to engage our hearts and minds in dialogue. This creates shared meaning and a vision forward to help us raise the bar and on our own actions in the world.
Questions to Ponder
- What dialogue needs to happen with the people in your life, your work, the people on your team?
- What dialogue and shared meaning or vision is needed for your road ahead?
- How are you intentionally and strategically engage your people to have them meeting together in person, when will you do those remotely, and when hybrid?
Remember, the best leaders, teams, & cultures stimulate progress by recalibrating their thermostat together.
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ABOUT THE THERMOSTAT
Conversations and micro-thoughts to engage your mind and heart.
A thermostat is proactive. It sets the temperature in a room. Controls the temperature. Regulates the temperature. But in today’s distracted, fast-paced and digital world, it’s easy for individuals and organizations to act more like thermometers, slipping into reactionary thinking, becoming scattered and inconsistent. The most compelling leaders, teams, organizations, families or collection of humans of any kind operate in thermostat mode. They calibrate their mind and heart to set the temperature for the vision and culture they want to create. Jason Barger, globally celebrated author, keynote speaker, and founder of Step Back Leadership Consulting, is the host of The Thermostat, a podcast journey to discover authentic leadership, create compelling cultures and find clarity of mission, vision, and values.