#16 / 6.9.23 - Original content: Leadership lessons from zoom meetings / 13 top execs best email strategies / 15 ChatGPT Prompts to save you 15 hrs week / Updates from Apple's WWDC Conference
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I wanted to do something different this week. In addition to the regular resources offered, I wanted to offer a few original thoughts as well, so the first resource will be my thoughts, followed by the latest and greatest from around the net!
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š§ Leadership lessons learned from endless Zoom meetings
No surprise here, but I think a lot of office workers (myself included) spend a fair amount of our day talking to people via Zoom and Microsoft Teams. (I remember a time when āturning on your videoā garnered comments like, āWell hey, this is cool!ā)
As Iāve been thinking about this the last several weeks, I have been reminded of the quote, āHow you do one thing is how you do everythingā. I want to propose the virtual meeting version of that:
How you lead virtually is how you lead in-person
Here are a few leadership lessons Iāve learned while leading through virtual meetings:
#1 - Learn to focus
Spoiler alert: in your next virtual meeting, there will likely be someone not paying attention. (Iāve certainly been guilty of this on more than one occasion!) Generally, this manifests itself when a person is asked a question directly and after taking a second to respond, then replies with, āIām sorry, can you repeat the questionā.
Question: What can you do to let the other person (and/or your team) know they have your full attention?
#2 - Come prepared
I love it when I have a meeting (or a conversation) with someone, and I can tell they have prepared for our time together. Whether itās creating an agenda, or reviewing notes from our previous conversation or heck, even being prepared with the tech by knowing how to share the screen. I so appreciate the little things like that.
Question: How can you best prepare for your next conversation or meeting?
#3 - Give the gift of margin
When did it become ok to schedule meetings back-to-back-to-back? Let me let you in on a secret - make sure those youāre leading (yourself, included) have room to breathe. I wrote about this earlier in the year (9 Radical Time Management Experiments) and have begun implementing this. I canāt tell you the difference it makes knowing that after a 25-minute meeting, I have 5 minutes to prepare for the next one. Or, in a 50-minute meeting, I have 10 minutes to take a quick walk or get away from my screen. (Some of my best ideas come from when Iām taking a walk!)
š© 13 top execs best email strategies
I really enjoyed this article as itās a good mix of technique, and practical tools. (Iām thinking about a way to implement the recommended TL;DR technique in the article)
š¢ 15 ChatGPT Prompts to save you 15 hrs / week
If youāre still on the fence about how to use ChatGPT (or Googleās version, āBardā) for any sort of meaningful work, check out this post. Very useful!
š„ļø Updates from Apple
Apple held their WWDC conference this week, in which they show off everything theyāll be releasing this year. There were definitely some standouts. The live stream was 2 hours, but this video cuts out all the unnecessary parts of the live stream and gives you all the info in 12 minutes. (The rumors you heard about a virtual reality headset? Yep, those are true!)
Words to wrap up:
āYou can easily judge the character of a person by how they treat
those who can do nothing for them.ā ā Malcom Forbes