Employee engagement that means business
Use workshops to get quick results from participants
To get your people actively involved in delivering your change and quickly, run workshops featuring the question: ‘what could possibly go wrong?’ And get them creating realistic ways to design out the problem, or agree ways to overcome it.
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The laptop battery finally conked out on my flight to Gothenburg and I turned to the in-flight magOnce I got past the reviews of all the great places I wouldn’t get time to visit, I got to the business section and my eye was caught by some stats about telephone meetings attributed to Kevan Hall’s book Speed Lead.
Apparently, a lowly 23% of participants say they give their full attention. On top of that, 27% do other work while supposedly taking part, 13% surf the web and 8% are not even fully dressed! Does any of that sound familiar? (By the way, the full findings are on AV provider IVCi’s website – with thanks to Neville Eden who pointed me to them.)
All this got me thinking that few of us have ever been taught to run face to face meetings, let alone virtual meetings such as telephone conferences.
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