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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
Good morning. This is Laura.
Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast. Today's tip is to take a moment to connect before you end a meeting or any other professional conversation.
You work with people, and these little moments of connection can make an entire workday feel more meaningful.
We are all busy, and if you are listening to this podcast, my guess is that you get a lot done in a day.
You move judiciously from one thing to the next, and that is great.
But even as you are doing that, it is possible to create meaningful moments during any task that involves other people.
Doing so is often more productive in the long haul than being all business.
Perhaps you already start most meetings with a little chit -chat saying hello before getting down to business.
Today's tip is about continuing with that spirit and putting a tiny bit of connection at the end of any meeting or conversation.
After you have summed up key takeaways takeaways, and restated any action items, you can take a moment to do something to honor the relationship.
That is, connect before you disconnect.
For instance, if you are leading a team meeting, celebrate something that happened with the team.
Maybe it's a whole team win, or maybe it's something cool that one person did.
You can take about 60 seconds to let that person bask in your praise before everyone goes out to get more coffee.
Other times, the final connection can be entirely personal.
Maybe a client's daughter just started kindergarten.
After you have worked through the planned content of your call, and as you are wrapping up, you might say, well, I have another call in just a few minutes, but before I go, tell me, how is Sierra doing in school?
At the end of a weekly team meeting, as everyone is gathering their things to leave, you might ask what people are looking forward to for the upcoming long weekend.
Before you get up to leave your boss's office after a one -on -one, you might congratulate her on her favorite team's recent win and ask her what she thought of the game.
Everybody has stuff to do, and I am not recommending that meetings expand to include lots of personal conversation.
This idea to connect before you disconnect connect only works in scenarios where meetings generally do start and end on time, and don't get sidetracked to discussions of things like office fridge policies.
You need to have the discipline to get through your material in enough time that you leave space for people to get to their next meeting and to have a two -minute conversation about something.
You could even phrase it as a lightning round question.
We have two minutes before I'm shipping everyone out of here to their next thing.
I want to know what everyone's doing this weekend.
Go. But here's the thing.
People want to work with people who care about them.
When you remember that the client just got a new dog or her kid just started at a new school, she feels more positively about working with you in the future same for team members when you care what they are looking forward to they want to work with you again and that saves you so much time and effort when you are staffing up projects people are asking to work with you instead of trying to avoid you how cool is that and you'll enjoy work more if you have more interesting conversations conversations which tend to come from taking an interest in people's lives.
So don't be too quick to say goodbye in your work calls and meetings.
Take just a moment to connect before you disconnect.
Work may start to feel better, and you may become more effective at your job, too.
In the meantime, this is Laura.
Thanks for listening.
And here's to making the most of our time.
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