Podcasts may be the key to reconnecting employees to their companies. After Microsoft Teams and Zoom meetings seem to have burnt out most of the working population, business leaders needed to find a new way to connect with their employees. Enter the podcast, which had the added bonuses of being more convenient for workers as they can listen to them on the go. “It’s very powerful for a leader to be able to get their voice heard by an entire workforce without having to get everyone dial into a conference call,”
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Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
