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12
FEB
2021

Love Taking Meeting Notes? ME NEITHER!

Posted By : Kym Dakin
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Finally! A viable alternative to taking notes or wasting time with the replay...meet Nugget!
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09
JAN
2021

Serendipity and New Nuggets!

Posted By : Kym Dakin
Tags : Capture application, Coastal Enterprises, Communication, group facilitation, Inc., Listening skills, Nuggets, online meetings, Propeller, rituals, Serendipity, teams
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Serendipity is a chance for both gratitude and increased awareness
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23
NOV
2020

Confirmation Bias: Tuning Out the Truth

Posted By : Kym Dakin
Tags : Bias, confirmation bias, Listening, Listening skills, Listening Styles
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The horse, with blinders on – filters out any unnecessary information, and for us, inconvenient information that conflicts with what we want to keep intact for ourselves. I feel like I’m doing battle with my own biases all the time now, and the election season has made it...
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25
SEP
2020

Head, Hands or Heart? Your Listening Style determines what you Hear AND what you Decide….

Posted By : Kym Dakin
Tags : active listening, collaboration, Communication, Listening skills, Listening Styles, trust
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There’s plenty out there on how to deliver our message for maximum impact – but we are all listeners too.  How we listen,  and the filters we use in listening can determine much about what we absorb, the nature of our relationships and the actions we ultimately decide to take in...
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10
AUG
2020

“Blursday” – Another Sideswipe from Covid 19

Posted By : Kym Dakin
Tags : Blursday, Calendars, rituals, stress management, Time, time management
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Are all your days looking alike? Here’s a way to take charge of your calendar! A column in yesterday’s paper struck a chord with me right from the title “What Day is it? Welcome to Blursday” For too many of us, the days of the week are all starting to feel like Sunday....
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28
JUN
2020

It’s Official – We’re ZOOMED!

Posted By : Kym Dakin
Tags : rituals, Team management, Trust Building, virtual teams
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I’ve been on three Zoom calls today – which have taken up 2.5 hours of my time. My head hurts, my eyes feel fuzzy, and aside from status updates and content of one kind or another – what was accomplished? In-person meetings tend to energize me (mostly). Online...
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17
MAY
2020

12 Rituals to Elevate Your Virtual Meeting

Posted By : Kym Dakin
Tags : collaboration, Communication, company culture, Facilitation, group decision making, rituals, virtual meeting protocols, virtual meetings, workplace rituals
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Are we sick and tired of Zoom yet?  I sure don’t want to be because it’s here to stay and we’re all finding out how much time we save by not having to commute. Plus, many experts tell us that much of our educational and business systems are going to make heavier use of this tool,...
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21
FEB
2020

Five February Jumpstarts!

Posted By : Kym Dakin
Tags : caffeine, creativity, exercise, gratitude, Motivation, rituals
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I suspect I am allergic to coffee.  But I am in DEEP DENIAL.  So don’t rave to me about your macha or your mushrooms or the latest miracle herb.  I. Love. My. COFFEE. But it doesn’t love me anymore.  Sneezing, teeth grinding, TMJ, anxiety… you get the picture. And now comes...
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16
JAN
2020

Let’s Add Value over Noise in 2020…

Posted By : Kym Dakin
Tags : active listening, Better Questions, Communication, conflict management, Facilitation, group facilitation, teams, Trust Building
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New Year, New Decade, New opportunities for… let’s call them “Behavioral Upgrades”.  Feels like a good time to ask “Am I adding value or just adding to the NOISE? “ We all have a driving need to be heard, connected, part of community of people who truly “see” us.  But now...
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20
NOV
2019

Your Workplace “Weather Report”

Posted By : Kym Dakin
Tags : collaboration, Communication, company culture, culture, diversity, experiential learning, Shift/POV
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I first notice the contrast in light – dark blue mountains in the background as the storm clouds grumble away – slapped into retreat by strong western sunlight.  And the lake is a blue expanse mirroring the mountains.  The foreground is bathed in the textured gold of a dry autumn...
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Recent Blog Posts

Love Taking Meeting Notes? ME NEITHER!

February 12, 2021

Serendipity and New Nuggets!

January 09, 2021

Confirmation Bias: Tuning Out the Truth

November 23, 2020

Head, Hands or Heart? Your Listening Style determines what you Hear AND what you Decide….

September 25, 2020

"Blursday" - Another Sideswipe from Covid 19

August 10, 2020
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