Author Archives: marcusdegerman

I am starting on the visualizing data part of the book now, tomorrow I will share some concrete things you might want to visualize. Visualizing data during the meeting is not about repeating everything again but giving people a tool to create better insights and ideas during the meeting. The data you need for aContinue reading “Visualizing goal and context”

Continuing with the last feeling to focus on in collaboration: Acceptance. This is so hard to try to write and summarize. I’m quite happy with this first draft and I hope my mind will have processed this some more when I go back to rewriting it. Acceptance FIRO-theory calls this being liked (and the firstContinue reading “Collaboration and the feeling of Acceptance”

Some more thought and concrete tips on how to make people feel more competent. When people see the goal of the meeting and why you want them there then they can either accept the meeting or send you a message to say that you should invite this person instead. At the start of the meetingContinue reading “Collaboration and some more thoughts on how to make people feel more competent”

Some thoughts on how to make people feel more competent. At work, people will directly feel threatened when they fear being humiliated, failing at a task, or if they don’t know if they will be able to do something. I think many people believe that they keep their jobs based on their competence, and thereforeContinue reading “Collaboration and the feeling of competence”

A first draft on making people feel more significant during meetings. I will probably need to rewrite it and I will add more concrete examples: Significance We all want to feel significant to the people around us, and we fear being excluded or ignored. Significance is about being seen and acknowledged. Some people want toContinue reading “Collaboration and the feeling of significance”

Continuing my thoughts on collaboration and one of the most useful skills to have to be better at improving collaboration in a team. Tomorrow I will go into more practical details. Being open is the start of collaboration which means that being able to increase people’s feeling of significance, competence, and being accepted is oneContinue reading “More thoughts on collaboration”

Starting to wrap my head around how to explain how I try to create better collaboration during meetings. Here is a first paragraph and I will continue adding to this during the next few days. Creating openness and reducing resistance One of the most important things at the start of a meeting is to makeContinue reading “Making meetings more collaborative”

Pictures and sketches for my book that I will now try to write and publish in 90 days.

Some thoughts on how to make an idea concrete enough to try. I will need to expand on this text a lot I think, but here is the overview. You have not finished just because you have found your highest priority ideas. Now the fascinating part begins, and some new conflicts will emerge: • SomeContinue reading “Making an idea concrete”

A common way to prioritize (and it is nothing revolutionary) is to draw a graph with one axel for impact and the other for effort. It is then easy to find what to do. To make this easier I usually find one idea that I put in the center of the graph, and I thenContinue reading “Some more thoughts on prioritization”