#5: Rethinking Meeting Culture in a Remote World 🧑‍💻

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Expert of the week: Spencer Waldron (ex- Global Brand Communications Director at Prezi & Founder of Cenrox - a presentation and speaker training agency)

Rethinking Meeting Culture in a Remote World

Adapting to remote work requires more than just transplanting office habits into our homes. As Spencer Waldron, an expert at Prezi, highlights, companies need to critically assess and redefine their meeting culture for remote work. Here's a distilled look into his key points:

🤔 Question Meeting Purpose: Is the meeting truly necessary? Can the same results be achieved in a different manner?

📊 Limit Status Update Meetings: Rather than everyone gathering for status updates, consider recording short, structured videos to share updates. Team members can then view them asynchronously.

📅 Trim Meeting Length: Present essential information prior to the meeting using asynchronous methods, such as a brief video. This enables team members to process the information, formulate questions, and come prepared for a focused discussion.

🌍 Use Asynchronous Video: For some discussions, especially across inconvenient time zones, you might not need a live meeting. An example of sending a brainstorming video could be when a meeting is scheduled late on a Friday evening. This ensures your input is considered, even if you can't be present.

🎉 Celebrate Creativity: Recognize and applaud team members who bring innovative and effective solutions to the table. Encourage others to follow their lead.

It's vital for companies to constantly adapt and innovate their communication strategies in a remote setting. By doing so, they can foster efficient collaboration and maintain a strong sense of team unity.

How good is your meeting culture?

📰 Article of the week

ChatGPT vs. Humans: Who creates the better creative ideas?

”AI will never replace human creativity”. Karl Ulrich and Christian Terweisch, two professors at the prestigious M7 business school, conducted research to check this claim.

They asked 200 MBA students and ChatGPT the same question:

”Generate an idea for a new product or service appealing to college students that could be made available for $50 or less.”

The results were impressive 👇

The number of ideas in 15 minutes:

• Human-generated ideas: 5

• ChatGPT-generated ideas: 200

The average purchase probability of ideas:

• Human-generated ideas: 40%

• ChatGPT-generated ideas: 47%.

Top 10% best ideas:

• Human-generated ideas: 12%%

• ChatGPT-generated ideas: 88%.

My take: There’s no way around AI anymore. It doesn’t need to replace you. But it will help you move forward a lot faster.

Read the full article here

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