Rapid Response: Mastering the hybrid workplace, w/Priya Parker, author of The Art of Gathering
Masters of Scale
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🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Hybrid, remote, in-person, a little bit of everything? Work has transformed into a giant experiment. Priya Parker, expert facilitator and author of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, shares her advice on how to manage the new hybrid workplace. Where to start? Focus first, she suggests, on making your meetings better.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey listeners, this is Chris Gotier, I'm one of the producers of Masters of Scale. |
| 0:04.8 | I want to tell you about a show from our friends at Harvard Business Review that might help |
| 0:08.5 | you better understand the world of business. |
| 0:11.2 | It's called HBR IdeaCast. |
| 0:14.2 | Each week, Harvard Business Review editors bring you the world's leading business and management |
| 0:18.5 | experts. |
| 0:19.5 | But it isn't just another business podcast. |
| 0:21.9 | We think you will find so many connections from IdeaCast to how we hear at Masters of |
| 0:26.6 | Scale think about scaling our business. |
| 0:29.8 | For instance, they often approach business challenges from contrarian points of view, |
| 0:33.8 | telling surprising stories like, what can we learn from NASA about managing high risk projects? |
| 0:40.4 | And what can a comedian teach us about using humor to lead a team? |
| 0:45.0 | Subscribe to HBR IdeaCast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 0:50.2 | Now onto the show. |
| 0:53.6 | We learn how to be and how to not be through each other. |
| 0:59.5 | In many of the organizations I've been speaking with, they've had a third new employees |
| 1:04.3 | joined during the pandemic who've literally never set foot in their office. |
| 1:08.4 | They have no cultural memory of what a place is. |
| 1:12.2 | 80% of companies right now are experimenting with hybrid. |
| 1:16.7 | We have a new set of skills we actually need to learn. |
| 1:19.1 | If you just focus on making your meetings better, it shifts a lot of other things. |
| 1:24.5 | It is probably the most important skill for productivity, for effectiveness, for meaning |
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