Currently working in a Communities/Higher Logic meeting. There's a series of them: planning, brainstorming, approving and such.
It's a core team: Brian, Eugene, Frank, Jodi, me.
We're making large decisions quickly. Everyone in the room is pretty efficient and smart (I'm always the laggard - day 9).
It's impressive and I'm noticing these essential qualities: trust and ownership. We're all talking different languages, checking in w/ one another (I mean this, you mean this, right?). We're all trusting Jodi's Higher Logic knowledge and Brian's driving the train quite well.
It's the trust that's impressive. Eugene is multi-tasking, but he hears questions for him and answers right away.
Cvent's got the right people. It's pretty exciting.
** addendum (2 hrs later)
Communication may be the thickest hurdle in our meetings. Because we come from different places, understanding each other's lingo is ... really important. So people don't leave the meeting w/ different ideas. Whiteboarding helps. (Circulated) meeting notes help.
But discovering intent is important, too. We just left a meeting where we talked about showing comp1 -- and creating a comp 2 for review, but probably not presentation. It might get placed in the Appendix.
But the true intent was who gets to make the decision on the elements in comp1 and comp2. And if there is no comp2 to show, the decision's already made.
And that's called reading the room. :)
It's a core team: Brian, Eugene, Frank, Jodi, me.
We're making large decisions quickly. Everyone in the room is pretty efficient and smart (I'm always the laggard - day 9).
It's impressive and I'm noticing these essential qualities: trust and ownership. We're all talking different languages, checking in w/ one another (I mean this, you mean this, right?). We're all trusting Jodi's Higher Logic knowledge and Brian's driving the train quite well.
It's the trust that's impressive. Eugene is multi-tasking, but he hears questions for him and answers right away.
Cvent's got the right people. It's pretty exciting.
** addendum (2 hrs later)
Communication may be the thickest hurdle in our meetings. Because we come from different places, understanding each other's lingo is ... really important. So people don't leave the meeting w/ different ideas. Whiteboarding helps. (Circulated) meeting notes help.
But discovering intent is important, too. We just left a meeting where we talked about showing comp1 -- and creating a comp 2 for review, but probably not presentation. It might get placed in the Appendix.
But the true intent was who gets to make the decision on the elements in comp1 and comp2. And if there is no comp2 to show, the decision's already made.
And that's called reading the room. :)
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