{"id":3674,"date":"2021-01-16T03:01:56","date_gmt":"2021-01-16T08:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/?p=3674"},"modified":"2021-01-16T03:06:32","modified_gmt":"2021-01-16T08:06:32","slug":"resolution-for-the-exhausted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog-alexis.monville.com\/en\/2021\/01\/16\/resolution-for-the-exhausted\/","title":{"rendered":"Resolution for the Exhausted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What seemed to be a long time ago, I started my first post of the year by telling you that I opened a Gym Club in January and told you what happened to that club in February<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More important, you will find in the post mentioned above suggestion to keep up with your resolutions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The last mentoring conversations I had inspired me for that post. In several of them, I believe nearly all of them, people mentioned how tired they were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In one of the conversations, we went deeper to understand the root causes, and the strategies to put in place to install a sustainable pace for the teams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a big fan of speedy meetings. It is an option to schedule 25 minutes meeting instead of 30 minutes, or 50 minutes instead of 1 hour. I intended never to schedule back-to-back meetings so that I can have a break in between them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My plan was to use the break either as a real break from the day with a short meditation for example.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes I felt it was better to use the break to immediately capture and share the action items so that other people will not be blocked waiting for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately, it does not completely work. I am even tempted to say: “It failed miserably.” The break time is too often used by the previous meeting that runs over, making it challenging to arrive on time for the next meeting. Reading this, you can observe that I am not flexible with time. Read more about that in The Culture Map<\/a> post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The consequence of running over is endless back-to-back meetings<\/em>. More context switching. More pending small tasks accumulating (the ones that I sometimes forget at the end of the day to remember them in the middle of the night). No physical and mental breaks. This impairs the ability even to be oneself, to behave, think, live properly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to that, as nobody works in an office, there is no water cooler break anymore, no social conversation, no simple ideas sharing or bouncing outside of the context of a formal meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sounds damning, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of my mentees found what I think is a perfect tactic during an open space<\/a> retreat with his team. They want to focus their meeting on one topic. They schedule one hour for the topic on their calendar. But their team agreement or social contract<\/a> is:<\/p>\n\n\n\n