In his seven-and-a-half-minute video, “Staying Sane and Effective When the World is Upside Down,” Ed Batista, Harvard Business School lecturer, offers some new perspectives and helpful tips for navigating the stressful times in life. Check it out!
Staying informed, understanding, inviting others to the conversation, engaging in difficult and uncomfortable discussions are good places to start. Here are some resources that we’ve curated and were shared within our network…
Given the events of recent days, the team at Integrated Work continues to explore resources to deepen our collective understanding of the role of racism in our culture, and to help support meaningful conversations that can help us all make progress toward the creation of equity. Mike Biselli, who has been catalyzing a movement to reimagine healthcare, recently hosted a compelling podcast “Confronting Systemic Racism in Healthcare” featuring industry expert Duane Elliot Reynolds.
Are you starting to have a love-hate relationship with Zoom? As we replace in-person meetings with video calls, we are definitely spending more time in front of a screen both for work and for connecting with family and friends. With all the “Zooming” that we are doing, video call fatigue is definitely becoming more common. Here are some tips from our team on how to tackle Zoom fatigue.
As we start transforming face to face conferences and meetings into a virtual experience, how do we facilitate and deliver a truly excellent, engaging, seamless experience to meeting participants? Here’s a guide to get you ready to deliver at your best, your first time and beyond.
Most of us have experienced the frustrations of long conferences and meetings in windowless rooms with uncomfortable chairs. Not only do we not do our best thinking in those environments; we often don’t remember much of what we heard or learned. How do you become intentional about your office space and make meetings productive and at the same time exhilarating?
Our shift in perspective can take a while to catch up. We need to change inside as well as in our role or we risk “leading too low.” In other words, we focus at a lower level of impact, expending our energies on what worked in the past and ultimately leaving too much of our leadership capacity untapped.
Developing people through conversations is the art of exploring the territory between where they are right now and the knowledge and capability you want them to build.
Today’s problems can’t be solved in back rooms, behind closed doors, or by a lone genius. Only when we “zoom out” and take a broader view can we find truly innovative solutions that will yield lasting results to today’s most complex challenges.
