The Collaboration Superpowers Podcast
People have gotten used to working remotely - but are still struggling with too many meetings & too many messages. Async has become really popular this year - but I’m not sure async is the answer. I think we need to change how we work: rethink meetings, rethink workflows, slow down, be more intentional, think about our information management. Jurgen’s “unfix” model.
 
The use and purpose of the office has changed/evolved. I get many companies who tried to mandate people - but it didn’t work. Now, people are resolved to figuring out how to make this hybrid/remote-first way of working.
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It is way too easy to schedule a time to talk online. Without any travel time, the allure of back-to-back meetings is great. And while back-to-back meetings are definitely efficient, they’re not great for us mentally - and it’s generally not good meeting practice. Here are all of the tips that I’ve collected that will help you get rid of your unwanted meetings.

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KARIN REED is an on-camera communications expert, the CEO and Chief Confidence Creator at Speaker Dynamics. She has written a third book ("Running Effective Meetings For Dummies") and I invited her back for a third conversation to discuss what we are still getting wrong about meetings in 2022. We discuss meeting overload and how to solve it and she gives some great tips for leveling the playing field in a hybrid setting. For more stories of remote teams doing great things, visit https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com.

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FREDRIK THOMASSEN is the CEO and Founder of Superside, a fully remote creative service company. Fredrik founded Superside to create more equal economic opportunities globally with the world's creative talent. He scaled his company of 750+ people in 80 countries - with a focus on cultivating an organization of kindness and truth seeking. In this interview, we discuss why the future of work is not freelance marketplaces or gig economy platfroms, but rather, solid jobs that are flexible, remote, and happy.
 
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DR. HEIDI K. GARDNER, PHD is a Distinguished Fellow at Harvard Law School, author of Smarter Collaboration, and co-founder of the research and advisory firm Gardner & Co. In this interview we dive into collaboration overload: Why it happens, how it can disadvantage certain groups of people, and how to overcome it.

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STEPHAN WIEDNER is a psychological safety expert whose career has focused on developing sustainable high performance leaders, teams, and organizations. He has developed a unique perspective on psychological safety by designing innovative and evidence-based training, building technology to help leaders and managers master their interpersonal skills, and leading a research study supervised by Harvard professor Amy C. Edmondson.
 
For more stories of remote teams doing great things visit https://www.collaborationsuperpowers.com.
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Knowing what we need to be productive can help us do our best work and to design our lifestyles around the things we love the most. In this episode we dive into what personal manuals are and the important role they can play in team building.
 
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CRISTEN TORREY is the Director of Research at Figma, "the design platform for teams who build products together." Cristen lead the research team at Figma to produce a report that underscores the must-haves for better team collaboration. In this interview we talk about the components of good collaboration and why it's so hard for teams to achieve.
 
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Dr. Darryl Stickel has devoted his career to understanding trust, what it is, how it functions, and how to increase it. He holds a PhD in Business from Duke University and wrote his doctoral thesis on building trust in hostile environments.

After leaving Mckinsey & Company in 2001, Darryl founded Trust Unlimited. His clients have included financial services, telecoms, tech, families, and the Canadian Military in Afghanistan. He is also a professor at the Luxembourg School of Business teaching in the MBA program and in their executive education program. Building Trust: Exceptional Leadership in an Uncertain World is his first book. Darryl, who is legally blind, lives in Victoria, Canada with his two sons and his “trusty” sidekick, his seeing eye dog, Drake.

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Direct download: 305_CS_Darryl_Stickel.mp3
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