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Boosting Meeting Productivity with Intentional Thoughts

Name: Boosting Meeting Productivity with Intentional Thoughts
Uploaded: 2025-04-07T08:00:34+00:00
Duration: 1 min
Channel: Tina Corner Stolz
Description: In this short dialogue, Speaker A and Speaker B discuss a meeting practice where participants write a personal word or feeling on a whiteboard before the…

7 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this short dialogue, Speaker A and Speaker B discuss a meeting practice where participants write a personal word or feeling on a whiteboard before the meeting begins, rather than stating it verbally at the start. Speaker B argues that the act of publicly writing a statement creates a tangible feeling, prompts participants to organize their thoughts, and leads to shorter, more focused updates, allowing the meeting to move quickly to substantive topics. Speaker A adds that the ritual makes participants more intentional, thoughtful, introspective, and encourages vulnerability and honesty. Both speakers view the practice as a way to improve meeting efficiency and foster a culture of openness.

is you have them come into the meeting and write it up on the board versus prior to the meeting starting, right?
Right.
Instead of the meeting starts and you just have them go around the room and verbally say what their word is. Yeah. Right? So what do you think is the value of them writing it up on the whiteboard?
I think there's a real tangible feeling, to going up and publicly writing down a statement that says, I feel this way, right? And, and then, um, as we go around the room to get each person's update, that's also a prompt to help them put their notes and thoughts together so that what we do is we get better and shorter updates so that we can move on to the real meat of the of the topic in the event.
Right. It's very intentional. I think it causes them to be more intentional and thoughtful about—
Thoughtful is a great word. I like that. Yeah.
Yeah. So what really is going on? It makes them really do introspective, right? This really is my word, right? And be more vulnerable and honest, ideally. Vulnerable, honest.
And as the group has grown over the years, That just becomes a habit. When they get their coffee, they go up to the board and write how their feelings are, and they police each other.