Lighten the online meeting load
Monday, April 13, 2020 at 10:59AM 
After so many online meetings Urgh! We’re foggy, brain-fried ... like we’re in a continuous conference.
This is the human experience of cognitive overload. But it’s exacerbated and multiplied by the load that’s coming via one channel - online. Yes, its different to face to face, next to each other, same room or space.
Here are 3 COGNITIVE LOAD COPING habits:
☀️Change state and break.
Take a short break between every meeting. Yes every one. It ‘releases’ the mental load you’ve been carrying. Like emptying a truck’s load. Don’t do back-to-back. Bad. Just 30 seconds, get up, move and BREAK your state.
☀️Stop soaking information and start sensemaking.
In every meeting, WRITE some handwritten notes. Not typed. Hand written. This is ‘externalizing’ information. It actively relieves those fried feels.
☀️Write down more than a meeting’s end points, actions or decisions.
Catch a quotable quote, a smile moment, a PHRASE that sounded good. This helps retain some focus.
And it’s ok... you’re not failing.
We’re all carrying around a huge concrete slab of shock, change, worry and uncertainty. That’s already some heavy stuff.
Break your state
Write it down
Catch a phrase
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