Where should teams begin to start building momentum and a thriving culture? Can meetings really be disrupted to become spaces of genuine productivity and value creation?  How can teams create a culture of shared ownership for meeting success?

Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guests Mamie Kanfer Stewart and Tai Tsao to explore these and other compelling topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone podcast!  Mamie Kanfer Stewart is CEO and Founder of Meeteor, a collaboration company that helps organizations builds strong, healthy cultures in which people thrive. Tai Tsao is Change Management and Customer Success Lead at Meeteor.

Some themes explored on the podcast include:

• How teams can build momentum by disrupting their meetings culture
• Mamie and Tai’s new book Momentum: Creating Effective, Engaging and Enjoyable Meetings
• The origins of the company and its name Meeteor: “Meetings with Impact”
• Insights into pitching team coaching to clients
• Meeteor’s 8 dimension team effectiveness model and tool: Balance, Communication, Change Agility, Common Vision and Direction, Accountability, Shared Support, Meaningful Engagement, and Trust
• Meeteor’s approach to working with teams: assessment; 2 week sprints including training, coaching and action modules for 2 to 4 months; sustaining new habits and change
• Meeteor’s approach to meetings: tips and techniques for before, during and after team meetings
• Desired outcomes, time management, agendas, notes, using tools and technologies and more to increase meeting effectiveness
• Research showing that 30% of meeting time is wasted due to inefficiencies
• A case example of how Meeteor helped a stone masonry company transform its team and organizational culture and how that impacted customers

All team members, team leaders and team coaches will find this episode essential listening for transforming team meetings and more.  Join the movement for creating better meetings! Tune in today and let Mamie and Tai take your team coaching practice to the next level.  For episode show notes and more go to: https://www.TeamCoachingZone.com/meeteor.

Learn more about Meeteor:

• Website: www.meeteor.com
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/meeteorHQ
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/meeteorHQ/
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/meeteor-software
• Link to article on Thriving Teams Model: Take Your Team from Good to Great with These 8 Elements of a Thriving Team (http://blog.meeteor.com/blog/thriving-team/)
• Mamie and Tai’s book available on Amazon
• For people interested in bulk orders discounts are available for 11+ books on the Meeteor website. Visit http://www.meeteor.com/store/momentum.

If you're using twitter to push content you can mention Mamie and Tai @mamieks and @taitsao. Their respective websites are http://www.mamieks.com and http://www.taitsao.com

Can games help accelerate forming, learning and performance in teams? Is there more to playing games than just fun and entertainment? How can team coaches, facilitators and trainers incorporate games into their team interventions?

Join show host Dr. Krister Lowe and today’s featured guests Bradley Albright (Managing Partner and Founder of Escape Entertainment and Vitality Teaming) and Sarah Raccuglia (Learning and Development Professional with Vitality Teaming) to explore these and other interesting topics on this week’s episode of the Team Coaching Zone Podcast!

Some themes explored in the Zone this week include:

• Brad’s journey from officer in the US Army, to investment banker with JP Morgan, to serial entrepreneur in technology, renewable energy and now to gaming.
• Sarah’s background in Organizational Psychology, somatic leadership and research on dolphins.
• Purposeful games as vehicles of training and coaching
• The surfacing of team dynamics and individual preferences through games
• Task vs. process in teams
• Emergent and distributed leadership through game simulation
• Helping, caring and collaboration behaviors in teams
• 3 Game Form Factors: escape rooms, mobile cases, large group games
• Time length of games and team size considerations
• The origins of escape games in Asia
• Designing collaborative games
• Integrating assessments into the gaming experience
• Using games with teams at scale
• The role of coaching, facilitation and training with team games
• Generational and other diversity effects on game experiences
• Flow states: the neuroscience of play, creativity, engagement, flow

Looking to add some fun and spice to your team coaching engagements? Dive into the world of Vitality Teaming with Brad Albright and Sarah Raccuglia and let them help you take your team coaching game to the next level! This is an episode that you will surely not want to miss!