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Are You the F1 Race Engineer of Your Meeting?

Are You the F1 Race Engineer of Your Meeting?

Meetings, Engagement
As I sit writing this, it’s March 2025, and the new F1 season is just weeks away.

by Jake Blocker

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Summiting Success: What Mountain Climbing Teaches ...

Summiting Success: What Mountain Climbing Teaches ...

Leadership, Meetings
I recently watched the 2015 documentary film, Meru, which tells the story of three elite climbers ascending Meru Peak,..

by Chris Williams

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Guy working from home looking at a laptop screen during a virtual meeting
Building Trust Through Virtual Meetings

Building Trust Through Virtual Meetings

Leadership, Meetings
Let's face it—building trust in virtual work environments can be tricky. In this modern workplace, you're not sharing..

by Jake Blocker

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How to Encourage Psychological Safety in ...

How to Encourage Psychological Safety in ...

Meetings
When people join meetings at your business, you want them to feel welcomed and comfortable collaborating with others...

by Jake Blocker

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One employee in a wheelchair sits at a table, meeting with two other employees.
How to Make Meetings More Accessible

How to Make Meetings More Accessible

Meetings
Ever feel like some voices get lost in meetings? It's often not intentional, but traditional meeting formats can leave..

by Jake Blocker

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How Camera-Off Meetings Can Support All Team ...

How Camera-Off Meetings Can Support All Team ...

Virtual Working, Meetings
I'm sure we've all had those days where the last thing we want to do is turn our cameras on and attend yet another..

by Jake Blocker

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Employees sitting in a meeting intently watching a speaker in front of them.
What Bad Meetings Tell Us about Employee Burnout ...

What Bad Meetings Tell Us about Employee Burnout ...

Meetings
Meetings are meant to bring teams together, encourage collaboration, and drive progress. Yet, for many employees, they..

by Jake Blocker

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How AI Can Improve Your Meetings

How AI Can Improve Your Meetings

Leadership, Virtual Working
We have all attended meetings where we sit back and think to ourselves, “This really could have been an email.” Whether..

by Jake Blocker

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3 Ways To Revamp Your Company’s Meeting Culture

3 Ways To Revamp Your Company’s Meeting Culture

Leadership, Meetings
Article originally published for Forbes Business Council and reprinted with permission. As a general rule, people hate..

by Chris Williams

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Time is Precious, Stop Wasting it in Bad Meetings

Time is Precious, Stop Wasting it in Bad Meetings

Collaboration, Meetings
I’ve written before on the good and bad of meetings. You know, corporate America’s favorite pastime. So, I thought I’d..

by Jake Blocker

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What Can Meeting Leaders Learn from AI Prompt ...

What Can Meeting Leaders Learn from AI Prompt ...

Meetings, Personal Development
Meetings are the backbone of collaboration and decision-making within an organization. They serve to convene the group..

by Chris Williams

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Will AI Eliminate the Need for Meeting ...

Will AI Eliminate the Need for Meeting ...

Leadership, Meetings
A few years ago, I moved into a new home. The home had ‘good bones’ as they say in the real-estate industry. It was..

by Chris Williams

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An Introvert's Survival Guide to Meetings

An Introvert's Survival Guide to Meetings

Meetings, Engagement
Years ago in a previous role, I recall sitting in a meeting room (an ACTUAL meeting room, remember those?). There were..

by Jake Blocker

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Quiet Quitting: A Generational Discussion

Quiet Quitting: A Generational Discussion

Meetings, Engagement
In the first edition of Interaction Associates Chat a group of IAers representing four generations in the workplace got..

by IA Team

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Improve Your Meetings with Preventions & ...

Improve Your Meetings with Preventions & ...

Leadership, Meetings
“You have no authority here Jackie Weaver!” How to Keep Your Meeting from Going Off the Rails.

by Chris Williams

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Ask IA: How Do I Get Focus Back When Meetings Go ...

Ask IA: How Do I Get Focus Back When Meetings Go ...

Meetings, Engagement
As a project manager, I tend to lead 10-20 meetings each week. While I do make an effort to set my meeting up for..

by Jake Blocker

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Turn on the Camera: Improve Your Online Meetings ...

Turn on the Camera: Improve Your Online Meetings ...

Meetings, Engagement
It’s Monday morning and you’re kicking off your workday with a team meeting. You open your virtual room but keep the..

by Jodi Cahn

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The Real Challenge with Hybrid Meetings

The Real Challenge with Hybrid Meetings

Virtual Working, Meetings
For the last two years, the pandemic transformed millions into remote workers and redefined workplace flexibility. As..

by Chris Williams

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4 Ways Facilitators Improve Your Hybrid Meetings

4 Ways Facilitators Improve Your Hybrid Meetings

Virtual Working, Meetings
Even as many businesses reopen their facilities and welcome employees back to the office, it’s clear that the future of..

by Nina Fojaco Reed

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What Baking Taught Me About Running Effective ...

What Baking Taught Me About Running Effective ...

Collaboration, Meetings
April 10, 2020. I was supposed to be a few days into a relaxing vacation in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico but was instead in..

by Jake Blocker

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Unlocking Interactions with Purpose and ...

Unlocking Interactions with Purpose and ...

Collaboration, Meetings
Our lives are becoming more complex and busier than ever. We live in a world of pings and chimes, which signal more..

by Chris Williams

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Connect People with Meetings that Matter

Connect People with Meetings that Matter

Meetings, Engagement
Meaningful employee engagement was a challenge for most organizations before the pandemic took hold. In 2018, a Gallup..

by Barry Rosen

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Football, Mindfulness, and the Benefits of ...

Football, Mindfulness, and the Benefits of ...

Virtual Working, Meetings
With the support of cardboard fans and recorded cheering, NFL teams are pounding it out on the gridiron. Yes, even..

by Susan DeGenring

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What to Ask Your Relative Who Voted for the Other ...

What to Ask Your Relative Who Voted for the Other ...

Virtual Working, Meetings
Those of us in the United States are now moving from election season to dispute season. Tens of millions of Americans..

by Jay Cone

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IA Recommends: Overcoming Zoom Fatigue

IA Recommends: Overcoming Zoom Fatigue

Virtual Working, Meetings
It's 2:00pm and you're on your fourth online meeting of the day. The coffee that got you through the morning has worn..

by Jake Blocker

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Are We Done with this Meeting?

Are We Done with this Meeting?

Virtual Working, Meetings
As a project manager, I have tons of meetings. I can remember several meetings in my previous organization with clients..

by Eve Keller

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Did You Write That Down?

Did You Write That Down?

Virtual Working, Meetings
In 2009, Atul Gawande published the fascinating book The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, in which he..

by Chris Williams

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Is Anybody Listening

Is Anybody Listening

Virtual Working, Meetings
In online meetings today, people are still listening. But what we hear and understand is often not what the speaker..

by Barry Rosen

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Why Are We Meeting?

Why Are We Meeting?

Virtual Working, Meetings
A few years ago, I attended a meeting at my previous company entitled “Marketing Update.” This wasn’t our weekly..

by Jake Blocker

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Meet the Online Meeting Monster

Meet the Online Meeting Monster

Virtual Working, Meetings
The Online Meeting Monster™ sucks valuable time out of your busy day. In the time of COVID when people are worried..

by Kaitlyn Labbe

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Meeting Roles - Infographic

Meeting Roles - Infographic

Leadership, Meetings
Meeting roles define who will take responsibility for performing meeting functions. You don't need to use all the..

by Jake Blocker

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10 Practices for Online Meetings

10 Practices for Online Meetings

Meetings, Engagement
Online meetings are the new norm for organizations across the world. Meetings already posed numerous challenges and..

by Eve Keller

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4 Tips to Productive Online Meetings

4 Tips to Productive Online Meetings

Meetings, Engagement
Picture this, you're in an online meeting and catch yourself checking your email or working on another project, you've..

by Jake Blocker

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You Can Have Better Online Meetings

You Can Have Better Online Meetings

Virtual Working, Meetings
“Meetings are a microcosm of the culture of an organization.” David Straus made that assertion in his seminal 1975..

by Michael J. Reidy

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Today from IA: We're Better Together

Today from IA: We're Better Together

Collaboration, Virtual Working
COVID-19 Response from Interaction Associates and CEO Barry Rosen In communities and businesses across the globe,..

by Barry Rosen

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Improve Your Organization's Effectiveness One ...

Improve Your Organization's Effectiveness One ...

Collaboration, Meetings
I saw a cartoon years ago that showed people sitting around a table looking bored and drinking coffee. The caption..

by Patty McManus

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When Face Time Wasn’t an App

When Face Time Wasn’t an App

Collaboration, Virtual Working
“Face time.” If you were reading hard-copy business magazines twenty years ago, you'll likely remember articles urging..

by Beth Yates

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Problem Behaviors in Your Meeting Infographic

Problem Behaviors in Your Meeting Infographic

Collaboration, Meetings
We've all been a part of or led difficult meetings. We've collected common problem behaviors we face in meetings and..

by Chris Williams

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