His research affirms that some of the guttural expressions can be the most effective words used during negotiations as well.įor example, the simple expression Huh, will incite the listener to respond. At the time, he was our Negotiations professor while attending the Kellogg School of Business in Evanston.
“Yeah” - M.I.T.’s Effective Word Number OneĪs a positive affirmation, Yeah comes as no surprise. Likewise, do NOT brainstorm or discuss, rather-list, or analyze, or converge-but have your meetings focus on one activity at a time. You may be Agile and do Lean or Scrum, etc. Do NOT brainstorm something any more than you do NOT do Agile. Therefore, stop using the term “brainstorming” as a verb (and its surrogate term: discussion). Groups can successfully complete any of the three activities, but they cannot complete them all at the same time, and certainly not without structure.
ANOTHER WORD FOR RUNNING A MEETING PROFESSIONAL
In order to structure discussions, consider the analogy of the three activities of professional brainstorming: Therefore, let’s embrace the first four words and strive to avoid the fifth. Ever been in a discussion without one of those components? Unfortunately, all too often, we all have.
Even lousy movies or novels have three components: a beginning, a middle, and an end. How’s that unstructured discussion approach working out for you? When you have a headache departing a meeting, it’s probably because the meeting was not structured and you’re not sure what, if anything, was accomplished. WARNING: Unstructured discussions are the primary reason most people don’t look forward to meetings. Discussion signifies unstructured meetings. The word discussion is closely related to the terms concussion and percussion. However, while discussalso made their list of effective words for business meetings- w e warn you to be cautious. and student Been Kim, on highly effective words for business meetings, found that the words yeah, give, start, and meeting have a larger impact in meetings than other words.
Research conducted by professor Cynthia Rudin of M.I.T.
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