Nir’s Note: This guest post is written by Jenny Wood, an author, speaker, founder of Google’s popular “Own Your Career” program. She writes for the Harvard Business Review, Entrepreneur, and her own b
Especially with online meetings I increasingly get the feeling of people multitasking on video calls. The tell tale sign is often a slightly "glowing" face as they scroll through documents or whatever.
It's rude but its also unproductive.
If people have more important things to do let's have that conversation.
In this post, Nir introduces the S.T.O.P approach which seem sensible. I would also add the technique of asking questions - calling people out, but in a subtle way - if people feel they are going to be talked to they will pay attention from that moment onwards!
This is the post I've been meaning to write!
Especially with online meetings I increasingly get the feeling of people multitasking on video calls. The tell tale sign is often a slightly "glowing" face as they scroll through documents or whatever.
It's rude but its also unproductive.
If people have more important things to do let's have that conversation.
In this post, Nir introduces the S.T.O.P approach which seem sensible. I would also add the technique of asking questions - calling people out, but in a subtle way - if people feel they are going to be talked to they will pay attention from that moment onwards!
Thank you for sharing these insights! Company culture definitely needs to feel like a genuine team effort for things to change.