Meetings

Meetings Can Be Where Adults Learn

Ways to Increase Psych Safety at Meetings

• Creating adaptive norms (e.g., we will listen to the quiet voice & reach out to those who don't speak quickly in groups)
• Assessing norms regularly
• Using protocols
• Balancing advocacy with inquiry

Acceleration

• “…the rate of technological change is now accelerating so fast that it has risen above the average rate at which most people can absorb all these changes. Many of us cannot keep pace anymore.”
• Friedman, Thomas L. , Thank You For Being Late

Acceleration

• “Smartphone technology gave rise to Uber, but before the world figures out how to regulate ride-sharing, self-driving cars will have made those regulations obsolete.”
• Friedman, Thomas L. , Thank You For Being Late

Connection to Ongoing Learning

• Our current cognitive tool set leaves us ill-equipped to comprehend the profound implications posed by rapid advances in everything from communications to warfare. Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future (Ito & Howe, 2016)

Fractal Nature of Learning

The Geometry of an Organization

• The idea is relatively new that the geometry of an organizational structure could affect individual connections...the ways in which individuals interact with their environment at work determine the quality of outcomes. Janna Raye, Journal for Organizational Transformation and Social Change, April 2014
• The ways in which individuals interact with their environment at work determine the quality of outcomes.