
How to Improve Collaboration and Connection: Tame the Meetings Monster with Brian Elliott
When you're part of a team, time for deep work when you're at your best can be hard to find. Blending time for collaboration with your team with heads-down focus time has huge upsides, but also real challenges when it comes to meetings-driven cultures and risks for remote workers being "forgotten" in an increasingly hybrid world. Brian will share best practices rooted in real-world examples and research on how individuals and teams can blend "synchronous" and "asynchronous" work in ways that improve collaboration, productivity and wellbeing. This session covers tactics that help individuals and teams be in the flow without being in the room, get control over meetings running wild on calendars, build "async" muscles: get more document-driven one step at a time, and create cultures and norms that enable boundaries and improve communication.
- Collaboration Habits of Successful Teams
- Outcomes Orientation and Goal Tracking
- Blending Synchronous and Asynchronous Collaboration
- Taming the Meetings Monster
- Focus Time and Deep Work
- Asynchronous Collaboration Skills and Tactics for Teams
- Team Norms and Agreements
- Overcoming Proximity Bias through Communication
- Creating Connection and Belonging in Distributed Teams