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Manager Tools

The Fruit Bowl At Meetings

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Management, Leadership, Strategy, Feedback, How-to, Skills, Advice, Development, Careers, Coaching, Business

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 February 2012

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

This guidance describes how to use a “Fruit Bowl” to eliminate cell phone distractions at meetings.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's topic, The Fruit Bowl at meetings. Here we go. The fruitful, I didn't know that we were going to get into healthy eating habits at meetings.

0:28.0

Yes. I love it and I'm always one for a snack during a meeting.

0:33.0

Yeah.

0:34.0

Particularly if they last forever, right?

0:36.2

There you go.

0:37.2

Yeah, the great thing about manager tools

0:38.3

is a great thing about effective meetings.

0:39.8

You don't need snacks because they're over fast.

0:43.0

There you go.

0:44.0

And one way to get them over fast is the fruit bowl as we'll talk about.

0:48.0

You know, we've talked about this before, right?

0:51.0

And if there is a dichotomy about business behaviors based on age, and neither

0:55.4

you nor I believe that to be true, but if it were, the one place that we'd expect folks

1:01.0

to CITES proof would be the use of digital devices right that

1:04.0

different age groups are are more comfortable with for younger the younger age

1:09.3

groups matter of fact I've had people tell me that it's just perfectly appropriate to talk to somebody and

1:14.6

use their cell phone at the same time. Right, that's like that's okay. And the fact that I don't

1:19.1

like it is a function of my being over 50 years old and not the function of being a professional.

1:24.7

Yeah you know it's related to the bit what's funny about it is it is young

1:29.2

people who grew up with these devices they, I mean what's funny is that they formed a habit and the habit

1:36.7

is to use a digital device, which you and I both have iPhones, we use them constantly, we

1:40.7

text and do all the stuff that are realst does. You do Facebook, I don't. And young people say about people who were more senior, what they say is, oh, not not clued into the technology.

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