What do you pay attention to in meetings?
Translated from the French original.
Just yesterday I went to see the current exhibition at the Fondation EDF (rue Juliette Récamier, near Sèvres Babylone in Paris).
The exhibition is well worth the detour.
Entitled “Faut-il voyager pour être heureux ?”, it is devoted to tourism and travel.
It offers installations, films, photographs and terminals giving access to short videos presenting experts’ perspectives.
Several of these experts describe how our civilisation today keeps up a confusion between, on one side, travel, which refers to the journey, and on the other, teleportation, which lets us go and find the sea in the Seychelles rather than in Saint Malo (I shall not get into a debate here about the quantity of CO2 required to enjoy a 15-degree difference in the bathing water).
One expert’s sentence caught my attention: “travel is a school of attention”.
Allow me to hijack it and put the following question to us:
“Is the meeting a school of attention?”
What if we looked at the meeting as a moment during which it is possible — not to say desirable — to turn our attention away from all the devilish inventions created by the attention merchants (GAFAM first among them), and to bring it to the men and women we are with: to be attentive to what they say, to what their bodies say, to what the interactions say about each person’s state of mind and about how the collective is working.
And you?
What do you pay attention to in meetings?
After the webinar of Friday 18 November on “the ten ways to run a round-robin in a meeting”, this post prompts me to devote the one on 15 December to the question: “what is it important to pay attention to in meetings?”
#reunion, #reuniologie, #reunionite, #reuniologue, #meeting, #pasplustardquhier
