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Remote work is here to stay: follow distributed teams best practices to encourage your team to work well wherever they are.
In this episode of Control the Room, I had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Peter Gray about his years of experience creating more collaborative organizations through his work studying professional networks. He shares how the pandemic has impacted workplace networks and influenced innovation. Later, Peter explains how the size, reach, and quality of a professional's network impacts their career. We then discuss how the future of work will reward team performance over the individual. Listen in for more interesting thoughts on the future of work.
In this episode of Control the Room, I had the pleasure of speaking with Shannon Varcoe about her experience building a career as a designer and facilitator focused on injecting more play into our work. She shares how her diverse background in theater and engineering has informed her work. Later, Shannon addresses some uncomfortable moments in facilitation like reflections, silence, play, and debriefing. We then discuss correctness, momentum, and collaboration. Listen in for interesting thoughts on the future of teamwork.
Make meetings more meaningful with ice breaker games: these activities challenge team members to connect and collaborate toward a common goal.
In this episode of Control the Room, I had the pleasure of speaking with Liam Marin about his experience building conferences and software for Remote Work advocates. He shares why he builds products and services that are defined by the concept of giving workers the flexibility to work wherever they want, whenever they want. Later, Liam offers tips on how to manage Remote Work with asynchronous communication. We then discuss connection vs. free work, ideas vs. execution, and management vs leadership. Listen in for Remote Work trends and predictions.
A Magical Meeting Story from Lorraine Margherita, an organization consultant and speaker based in Paris, France.
Participatory design methods encourage community-driven problem-solving to help design creative solutions and invites disengaged employees into the creative process
In this episode of Control the Room, I had the pleasure of speaking with Rodney Evans about her 20+ years as an adaptive organization designer and future of work consultant. She shares how rebellion first led to her interest in helping teams explore new ways of working together and self-managing systems. Later, Rodney asks some great questions like: “what does it take to help teams thrive? What are some good foundational agreements for teams? And what does participatory change look like?” We then discuss the criteria for filtering out bad clients to work with. Listen in for inspiration on how to build the shared responsibility to help teams execute their own change.
Video and transcript from Hassan Ghiassi's talk at Control the Room 20222
Your company culture changes everything: harness the power of your workplace potential with collaboration culture.
