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ARE YOU CRIPPLING YOUR TEAM?

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“Screens” in meetings (with one exception), are like a live grenade in a classroom: they divert attention and cut performance immediately.
“Screens” are laptops, iPads and cell phones. They ooze into work sessions without resistance, sucking away the vitality and excellence that the group was assembled for.
Why are meetings held? To improve understanding and commitment on the way to solving a problem or two. Sometimes they deliver these results with remarkable value and enduring improvement. Usually the members are there because working together will produce better results than working alone.
Everyone knows this, right? Then why the screens?
• “So I won’t miss a call or text that won’t wait.”
• “So I can take notes quickly, and have them ready to use later.”
Screens do this damage to work groups immediately:
• Divert attention
• Interrupt problem solving flow
• Distance relationships, crippling the teamwork that can deliver winning results.
If screens are so great, why don’t basketball players don’t carry them into their games?
Here’s what’s true:
• Unless folks in the room are firemen or emergency docs, phones aren’t needed.
• Typing notes in a computer is worse, way worse, than hand notes.
A new study compared understanding, retention, future application, and creativity between college students who took class notes by computer, and those who took notes by hand. The hand writers were clearly ahead of the computer note takers, presumably because hand written notes require thinking and synthesis, proven boosters to learning and retention.

Read the article at the link below for more. Here’s a summary:
“…to synthesize material, draw inferences, see new connections, evaluate evidence, and apply concepts in novel situations, we need to encourage the deep, effortful cognitive processes that underlie these abilities.*

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-learning-secret-don-t-take-notes-with-a-laptop/

You’ll do better, and meetings could be faster and better if you put down your screen and go to work. The few minutes it takes to transcribe your notes later won’t kill you.

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*Scientific American, June 3, 2014. Author Cindi May is a Professor of Psychology at the College of Charleston.



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