Raise your hand if you love meetings! Sometimes they can breed productivity and sometimes you can’t wait for them to end. If you’re feeling like your brainstorm session is coming up short on ideas, try taking it for a walk! Yes, walking meetings are a thing (Steve Jobs does it), and can help stimulate ideas, positive communication, and problem-solving. Of course this doesn’t work for all types of meetings; sometimes you really need a computer or whiteboard, but try it for your weekly touch-base or conference call and watch things shake-up in a good way! |
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Oppezzo, Marily, and Daniel L. Schwartz. "Give your ideas some legs: The positive effect of walking on creative thinking." Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition 40.4 (2014): 1142-152.
"Walking gives your ideas legs; When you are stuck for inspiration, it may be best to leave your seat and stroll around the street to get the creative juices flowing, writes Carly Chynoweth." Sunday Times [London, England], 22 June 2014, p. 2. Academic OneFile.