responsiveness

Overcome the Worst Facilitation Fears of Introverts (and Everyone Else)

Leave a Comment / Newsletter: Leadership and management (general) / Nancy Settle-Murphy

Admit it. You’ve done your share of commiserating about some perfectly awful meetings you’ve had to endure. In fact, you’ve been such a vocal critic of poorly-run meetings that your manager anoints you as the perfect person to facilitate a do-or-die budget planning session with your team, group VP, CFO and a few other high-level decision-makers. If […]

Overcome the Worst Facilitation Fears of Introverts (and Everyone Else) Read More »

Create a Sense of Community with Questions That Connect

Leave a Comment / Newsletter: Leading effective virtual teams / Nancy Settle-Murphy

“Let’s go around the room and have everyone share a fun fact.” You cringe as you wait your turn, wondering which fact you can use that: You have not already used the dozens of times someone has asked this same question Is intriguing but not intimate Is interesting but not shocking You’re just glad you

Create a Sense of Community with Questions That Connect Read More »

Energize Your Next Virtual Meeting!

Leave a Comment / Newsletter: Planning and leading engaging virtual meetings / Nancy Settle-Murphy

The very word “energizer” can scare some people away. (Typical responses: “Energizers? Nah, our teams hate those things.” Or “We don’t have that kind of time to waste in our meetings.” Or: “Too risky. If it backfires, I’ll be blamed.” Or, “We have a bunch of introverts. Energizers are just too painful for them.”) Now

Energize Your Next Virtual Meeting! Read More »

Ghosting Can Come Back to Haunt You – Here’s Why, and How to Avoid It

1 Comment / Newsletter: Essential communication and collaboration skills for virtual teams / Nancy Settle-Murphy

A client who’s raved about my work for years has unceremoniously stopped answering my emails. A prospective client who has promised to move forward with my proposal has suddenly cut off all communication. A colleague I’ve known for years seems to have fallen off the face of the earth. Yup, I’ve been ghosted, and I’ll

Ghosting Can Come Back to Haunt You – Here’s Why, and How to Avoid It Read More »