We had our very first guest TED O’clock leader today…it was Chad Schonewill! Chad showed the talk by Nilofer Merchant titled “Got a meeting? Take a walk.” Here were a few of the key takeaways from the discussion that followed:
- Sitting all day is bad for your health.
- You can take care of your health and your obligations if you do creative things like meeting while going for a walk.
- Meeting while walking can provide an opportunity for fresh, out-of-the box thinking.
- The weather is getting nicer now (other than the occasional blizzard), so the idea and practice of meeting and walking will be easier.
- When Chad had more individual meetings, he implemented this practice of meeting and walking. For many, the walking greatly improved the interaction, as the other participant was more engaged. In no case did the meeting and walking make the meeting worse.
- Some felt that walking, or at least standing, helped them to be more creative in certain circumstances.
- While it can be more complicated to meet and walk with multiple people, perhaps having standing meetings with the group could help.
- Meeting and walking can help get the basement dwellers out of the basement and into some sunlight and fresh air.
- Stand-up or sit-to-stand desks were also discussed in the effort to do more standing/walking throughout the day. Talk with your supervisor if you have an interest in having this option available to you.
Please let me know if you have any additions or corrections to the above.
A big “Thank you!” to Chad for leading the discussion today! If you have a TED talk you’d like to lead, please let me know. We’ll get you on the list of leaders (I have leaders for the next two talks!) for mid to late summer.
Thanks to all of you who came to this talk…I hope to see you and anyone else who is interested for block 8’s TED O’clock talk!
ITS:Always fun, never boring
Respectfully submitted,
Linda Petro
