About Dr. Doug

Societies spend a lot of time in meetings. There are meetings for work, community, and family. Sometimes you will hear people say, “we are having a meeting to talk about the meeting.” Most often, the intent of a meeting is to inform and share knowledge resulting in some form of action taken by the meeting participants. This paper explores an interdisciplinary approach to improve meetings in the corporate setting informed by learning principles and outlines ways to create higher levels of engagement through psychological safety, knowledge sharing, and preparation. Meetings are viewed as a place where individuals can come together with the potential to create new knowledge through building trust, self-confidence, and transparent communication. It will summarize some astonishing meeting statistics, briefly highlight the construct of psychological safety, explore select learning design principles, and introduce a preliminary model to improve meeting collaboration, productivity, and outcomes.

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Reframing how we respond to the question, "what do you do?" by crafting a more holistic story helps define ourselves beyond a job title.

Remember the time you walked into a meeting with new people and were asked, “What do you do?” Or, possibly in the days leading up to the actual event, you begin contemplating questions like, “How will I introduce myself?” or “Will there be someone I can relate to?” along with the natural anxiety of entering an unfamiliar environment with unfamiliar people. As we enter new group environments, moving through the “get to know you stage” can be an awkward part of team forming. In this article, we will look at elevating the introductory elevator speech to help create relational connections through storytelling.

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