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New clichés for organization development

Jargon, clichés, rhetoric  – talking while saying nothing.   Companies develop their own language or accepted terms.  Professions develop their own lingo.  People use stock phrases or go-to frameworks.  All of these are an attempt to communicate, to create a common understanding, to fit in, to prove what you know, and to make sense of [...]

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The best meeting icebreaker to break the ice

Meeting icebreakers can be as painful as a bucket of ice down your shorts.  The icebreaker’s intent?  Loosen things up, meet people, set the stage for effective work. The challenge, if you are going to use an icebreaker, is to understand the difference between hokey and intentional. Know your audience is a constant refrain.  But sometimes, [...]

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5 tips to manage better meetings

Meetings, meetings, and more meetings. We have meetings to clear up confusion, to communicate, to interact, to make decisions, to listen, and to collaborate. Too many meetings end without clear decisions and too often it is not until after the meeting is finished when the real conversations begin when people: complain about not being heard, [...]

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