Oh the overload/Meet less/Late night busies/Make meetings collaborative/If perfection is a thing for you/

The late night busy?

Do you stay up late, ‘past bedtime’, doing stuff, things??

I’ve sat up late reading, learning, writing, sketching, thinking, doodling...?

It can feel relaxing, particularly if you’ve had a big day or are searching for some peaceful time.?

But now it’s been called out as ‘revenge bedtime procrastination’ or just ‘bedtime procrastination’.?Check it out on Science Focus here.

Kids have been great at negotiating and debating bedtime procrastination for eons. Do adults do this too??

Do you … let’s give it an acronym… RBP??

Let me know — maybe we need a support group or club. Or perhaps we should just go to bed! ??

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Meet less - feel better

We’ve been defaulting to meeting, talking and working together, in sync and at the same time, for so long it can become just ‘how we work around here’.?

But better ways of working have been found, tried and tested. We can adopt practices others have proven without having to wonder if it could work for us.?

This is absolutely the case with synchronous and asynchronous work.?

Many teams and organisations are doing less synchronous work …like meetings.?

Instead of thinking we need another meeting or need a meeting to get started on work, we simply start.?

This asynchronous work is proving to be a great choice to reduce the number of meetings you have, free up your schedule, reduce overall pressure and help make better progress on the important stuff.?

Get a handle on the concept of sync/async:

??Sync : when should we meet with each other at the same time

??Async : when can we work on things in ways and at times that suit us.?

Read more about Sync Async in my latest book and begin implementing these changes in your daily work.?

It’s a way of working that will become wonderfully familiar and freeing — once you break from the default patterns of too much synchronous work.?

?? Available in ebook and paperback.?

?? Keynotes and workshops on Sync Async available too?

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If perfection is a thing for you?

This might help.?

Join my next free Masterclass on perfectionism?

…and how we can think, work, lead and achieve in other ways that don’t require perfectionist behaviours.?

August 25 from 2-3pm AEST?

Recording will be available to watch it async / when it suits you if you can’t join live

Register via Eventbrite?

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Make that meeting collaborative ...

10.03am Remote meeting starts

10.04am ‘Hi how are you, oh hello everyone’

10.17am ‘Yes’

10.19am ‘Same’

10.40am <insert most used emoji into chat>

10.59am ‘No nothing to add. Ok bye, thank you.’

<End of meeting>

“Well that’s an hour I’ll never get back. So much for collaboration.”

It happens … and it’s revealing about how our precious synchronous time (time together) is too often wasted.?

If it was a presentation, we could have looked at a recording or read the information pack or slide deck at another time (asynchronous).?

Better still, the presenters could have recorded a 7 min video that I could speed up or read the subtitles or transcript for greater understanding and retention.?

And if it truly was a collaborative meeting … well, it wasn’t. It needed better thought, design and process for collaboration.?

Whatever the reasons for ‘coming together’, we need to do better to create environments where people want to, can and do contribute and participate.?

Otherwise, let’s shift to working more asynchronously when remote - using chat, email, shared collaborative tools, documentation and other methods, that bring the benefits of sync and async work together.?

It’s no wonder we multitask, pay partial attention and fake our way through meetings that aren’t working… and aren’t likely to change in a hurry.?

Modern teams and workplaces are evolving and shifting their meeting cultures and making better progress because of it.

You can begin using more asynchronous ways of working immediately, today.?

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Oh my … the overload?

Information, social media, meetings, work stuff, family stuff, life stuff … It’s all capable of easily overwhelming us.?

Information overload isn’t going to ease off anytime soon, so we will need to do something about it!?

Read some of the key tips in this?Harvard Business Review?article.?

?? I’ll be speaking on this topic next week at a conference of school principals.

Schools and education have been hit hard throughout the pandemic with the ongoing pressures of change, information overload, overwhelm generally and increasing demands from their market.?

And gathering at a conference brings even more potential for overload to hit us, no matter how great the speakers and presenters are — there’s only so much our working memory can handle.?

I can’t wait to share the relevant research, insights, practices and tools for these new and better ways of working.?

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That's it for the week's digest...

Lynne

Lynne Cazaly is a work futurist and expert in new ways of thinking and working.?

She is an international keynote?speaker?and award winning author with her ideas and thoughts?published in 10 books.?She consults to leaders, teams and businesses guiding them through their adoption of new and creative ways of thinking and working as they respond to changes in the world.?

Read more at?www.lynnecazaly.com