SPaMCAST 598 - Recognizing A Toxic Meeting Culture. Continuous Learning - Essays and Discussions

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">SPaMCAST 598 features our essay titled, Recognizing A Toxic Meeting Culture. Just because you are meeting remotely doesn’t mean meeting culture has been reset. Now even more than when we are all together, getting meeting culture right is critical to maximizing communication. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We will also return to the QA Corner with Jeremy</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Berriault. Jeremy and I talked about continuous learning.  Our discussion was taped earlier this year; it was a different time. I left the references to excitement about the new year in the comments to show how fast the world can change. And it can change again!</span></p> <p><strong>Re-Read Saturday News </strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">This week we tackle Chapter 10 of</span> <a href="https://amzn.to/34RuZ6V"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High, Second Edition by Patterson, Grenny, McMillan, Switzler</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">. The subtitle for this chapter is ‘Advice for tough cases.’  In my considered opinion, nothing ever goes perfectly to plan. All conversations are a mixture of things that you’ve run through your head to prepare and parts that are off-script. Having a wide range of additional tactics for hard issues makes it easier to approach crucial conversations with confidence.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 1 -</span> <a href= "http://bit.ly/2wls1Mq"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Logistics, Forewards, and Preface</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">-</span> <a href= "http://bit.ly/2wls1Mq"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">http://bit.ly/2wls1Mq</span></a><span style= "font-weight: 400;"> </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Week 2 -</span> <a href= "http://bit.ly/3a7Kivp"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Chapter 1: What’s a crucial conversation? And who cares?</span></a> <span style="font-weight: 400;">-</span> <a href= "http://bit.ly/3