meetings
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🎧 Effective communication (Audio)
Effective communication requires that those receiving information from us can easily process it. I’ve been on way too many calls where you can barely hear the speaker due to echo, background noise, or other audio problems. Some things I’ve …
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👥 Alternatives to meetings
✔️ Instead of presenting in a meeting, record a screencast and share it. ✔️ Publish your work often. ✔️ Utilize notifications in workflow tools. ✔️ Utilize a team chat tool such as Signal, Slack, Discourse chat, Discord, etc.. This does wonders…
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👥 Everybody Works and the impact on meetings
In a recent podcast titled Everybody Works, the owners of a 60-person company discuss the impact of full-time managers and one of them is more meetings: And the primary problem with management is when it’s full time and it’s only that it c…
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👥 Efficient meetings
There are a lot of good ideas for effective meetings: Whose meeting is this? A simple checklist Who has time for meetings? There are good reasons to have a meeting (hanging out, brainstorming, setting priorities, making decisions), but in…
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👥 Meetings and human relationships
Improving human relationships is sometimes used as a justification for meetings, and face-to-face meetings can certainly improve human relationships. But more generally, we can say that positive interactions improve human relationships. And…
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👥 Why meetings?
There are many reasons to call meetings: Accountability Knowledge transfer Transparency Status Review Oversight Improve/maintain relationships Brainstorming However, in this age of excellent collaboration tools (Git workflows, project boa…
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🎧 Use a headset optimized for calls
One thing most of us do routinely is voice calls or video conferencing. For this to work, each party needs to have a microphone and a speaker. The simplest setup is to use the microphone and speaker built into your phone, laptop, or car. So…