In Meetings, Raise Hands Before Reading
I spent five and a half years at AWS before moving (back) to Microsoft, where I work today. Instead of presenting a document, the author gave everyone time to read it before the discussion started.
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I spent five and a half years at AWS before moving (back) to Microsoft, where I work today.
Instead of presenting a document, the author gave everyone time to read it before the discussion started.
At Microsoft, I found the inverse practice: everyone began with their hands down and raised one when they finished.
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I spent five and a half years at AWS before moving (back) to Microsoft, where I work today. Instead of presenting a document, the author gave everyone time to read it before the discussion started. There was a small facilitation trick that made this work surprisingly well: when reading began, everyone raised a hand.
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- At the time of writing this, you'll find me hard at work changing the culture of raised hands at Microsoft,…
- At Microsoft, I found the inverse practice: everyone began with their hands down and raised one when they finished.
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Originally appeared on code.dblock.org | tech blog. At Amazon, many meetings began with silent reading. The meeting started with all hands up and counted down to zero.
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