In this video, you’ll see the impact of structure and clarity in how the amazing Bobby McFerrin “plays” the audience at the World Science Festival!
Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ne6tB2KiZuk
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The structure of the pentatonic scale, coupled with Mr. McFerrin’s clarity of leadership, helps unleash the collective abilities of the audience. Intentional focus on these can do the same for your team!
Real World Story
As we continuously adjust to new ways of accomplishing our work together, we realize how quickly clarity fades. It fades fast for teams, particularly those that are geographically distributed. A team we worked with discovered gaps in their communication with each other over two particularly frustrating meetings. After discussing these frustrations, they asked what the real problem was and for suggestions on how to fix it. Together they decided to create a group text message on their cell phones. They set the expectation of providing daily updates from all team members. This gave them a simple, structured platform for communication and the clarity needed to encourage collaboration.
On Your Own
Reflect on how the team communicates. How is information shared? Is it effective? Does it encourage people to share information? Does it make it ea sy to share? If not, it’s adding frustration and friction for the team.
With Others
At the end of each time together answer this question: Who is going to do What by When and How will we follow up? Most of us know you either meet or work; you can’t do both simultaneously. By answering the above question, the team will leave the meeting with the structure and clarity for progress.
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