Tag: effective meetings

Customer Engagement, Leadership

Streets, Roads, Stroads and Leadership Effectiveness

I was listening to a podcast episode on 99% Invisible hosted by the inimitable Roman Mars and they were talking about Stroads, which piqued my curiousity. So, today, we will explore this topic but from a leadership lens. Before we go ahead, I think it makes sense for us to define each one of these terms and what it means. Roads: A road is defined as a medium to move vehicles (cars, trucks, etc) from one point to another as quickly as possible. By this definition, all your highways and express ways are all roads. Streets: Street is a medium […]

Entrepreneurship, Innovation, Leadership, Sales

Participating and Hosting Effective Virtual Meetings

Premise:   Can you hear me?   You are on mute.   I can’t hear you.   Let me put on my headphones.   Sorry, I did not understand, can you pls repeat that.   Your voice is breaking off.   There is a lot of echo..   Can everyone go on mute please?   Suddenly, these have become the most used phrase in our lives. Suddenly, we are in a place where all travel and the perks that come along with it, have vanished and we are expected to continue to be productive while working virtually.   Everything from […]

Leadership

Virtual Vs In-Person Meetings

Premise:   The current pandemic has definitely changed the way we organize ourselves and our meetings. This large scale experiment has also shown that work from anywhere is a going to be a distinct reality in most of our lives (unless it cant be).   This definitely means that we need to rethink the way we function – work, play and meet with our colleagues, customers and partners.   In this regard, I read this HBR post “3 Things Virtual Meetings Offer That In-Person Ones Don’t” written by Bob Frisch and Cary Greene. You can read the entire post here. […]