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Mar 15, 03:30 am: Speed geek your own staff meeting

I work at a place with 150 folks and I can barely pay attention to what my own work group is doing before I find that brain is filled.

That’s why I love it when we speed geek. Basically, a handful of projects set up stations, the rest of us count off into groups equal in number the stations, and then we rotate through, 10 minutes at each station, and we get a rapid fire update on bunch of projects. I always leave these staff meetings with a bunch of scribbles on a note card and I ideas for connecting with my co-workers.

So, here’s my question: how we replicate this with a piece of internal tech? Or is it replicate? I get that a huge part of the value comes from listening to the questions that folks in my group ask; I learn a lot about what they are concerned with and what their perspectives are.

I’m thinking more about this as now find ourselves spread out across a San Francisco block in three different buildings and multiple floors.

What have other people used to make sure their growing and spreading organizations stay in touch?

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  1. http://www.onenw.org/toolkit/today-messages/


    Mar 15, 04:06 am
  2. @Jon, Thanks for the pointer. I have used something like that in the small groups, as the article suggests. I’m wondering how we can get better visibility across the many projects that happen in the org—the stuff that’s going on in all the small groups I’m not a part of…


    Mar 15, 04:28 am