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Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to inject moments of delight into your meetings.

These moments can spark engagement and creativity

and give people something positive to remember about their time together.

Frankly, anything that makes meetings better is a big win in my book.

Today's tip comes from my interview with Rebecca Hines for this podcast. Rebecca is an expert on

organizational behavior and has a special interest in meetings. In our conversation, Rebecca recommended injecting at least one

moment of delight into every meeting, even if it's just a five-second moment. Delight is this very

interesting combination of joy and surprise, she said. The surprise makes people think differently, as she put it, and remember these

moments of delight. Now, you may be wondering exactly how you are supposed to squeeze delight into

your already packed agenda, and how you are supposed to come up with something delightful

when the meeting itself might be serious business.

But this really doesn't have to be so hard.

For instance, Rebecca suggested shoutouts,

and what she called peer-to-peer recognition,

which she said is especially powerful.

So you praised John for the insightful research he did for your last project. Or even better,

Marie praises John for his research because it made the presentation she gave about the project so much better. You, the organizer, sit there and delight in all of this. Rebecca also suggested bringing a snack to share,

ideally something that is personally significant.

If your brainstorming sessions in college were fueled by Doritos,

bring them for a brainstorming session at work,

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