Best of dorris meets - The Innovator's Podcast by hidorris

This is the first time Pär and I are doing a Deep Dive Podcast looking into the details of some great tools to prepare and run the perfect meeting. We do not only talk about techniques, tools and the process but also share our most favorite tools with you. Our intention is to feed you with the best insights and advice and enable you to build your own expertise and toolbox. 

To follow our chat and use what we are talking about, you are invited to check out our Miro Board we prepared and make us of everything in there. 

https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kpx6_QE=/ 

Next week we are going to follow up on what we have learnt, build on that and go on in the process of a perfect meeting with the second part of the Sail Boat Exercise and an enjoyable ideation session.

What's inside this episode:

5:10 Why meetings often suck

10:55 Why we love to do checkins and you should, too

14:58 Extra tips on checkin experiments we have been doing

18:01 Introducing the Miro Template and a tool called IDOARRT to plan your perfect meeting

25:35 The Sail Boat Exercise I (or use an Airplane instead): Start with something positive

33:39 Dealing with side-discussions

36:21 Outlook to the second part of our Deep Dive Podcast next week 

This is part 2 of our Deep Dive „The perfect (remote) meeting“. We are introducing a process and all the tools you need to lead your next meeting to a successful outcome. Starting with good preparation using a tool called „IDOARRT“, then jumping right into your meeting topic with the Sailboat (or in Pär’s case, the Plane) exercise followed by an ideation session and developing an action plan at the end. This meeting outline can be used for a mass of different goals and issues. Take all or just some of our discussed methods and try it yourself. As a guideline, we have published a free Miro Board for you. Just grab it, listen to our latest episode and follow us along.

Find our Miro Board here: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kpx6_QE=/

What we talked about:

2:10: Checkin in with another weird checkin question, it’s Pär’s turn

5:15: Recap of Part 1

8:25: The Sailboat Exercise & The importance of converging with voting

16:20: Chris about good How might we questions and why they matter

19:08: Ideating in just 5 minutes

27:10: The Double Diamond Model: Converging and Diverging

29:11: Pär explains the Import-Effort Matrix

31:50: How to move from Ideas to Actions

40:10: Checking out and why you should always do a checkout

Originally published on 17th July 2021

In the first episode of our new season „Inside the Box“ we introduce three great tools to build stronger teams and establish a trustful atmosphere in your company. Building upon our Workshop Format „The Team Resort“ we introduce you to the following tools:

#1 Checkin and Checkout [6.13]

When to use: at the beginning and the end of each meeting or workshop

What’s the purpose? Checking-in/out invites each team member to be present, seen, and heard. Checking-in emphasizes presence, focus, and group commitment; checking-out emphasizes reflection and closure.

Tool #2: Project Goals [13.03]

When to use: at the project’s kickoff. 

What’s the purpose? This tool can help provide clarity about “what success looks like”; uncover hidden assumptions about activities, outcomes, success, and failure; and identify potential causes of failure. Get your team aligned towards the same goals!

Tool #3: I appreciate - a Feedback exercise [19.30]

When to use? Effective feedback given regualrly is one of the most important ingredients in building constructive relationships and strong teams

What’s the purpose? Feedback helps your team members gain a growth mindset. Feedback creates a culture that enable learning and growth, which results in improved engagement and productivity.

👉 Find the Miro Template here: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_l7bnS6g=/ 

👉 The Book „Nonviolent Communication“ by Marshall B. Rosenberg can be found on Amazon

Originally published on 14th August 2020

Today Chris & Pär are talking about our favorite tools to make online meetings and workshops an awesome experience. They are introducing their top 5 and revealing more valuable insights about when to use tech and how to choose tools. How can you make a remote workshop more interactive and joyful? How can you engage people in front of their screens, how can you prepare best and reflect afterwards. And coming back to innovating, how can we break things and invent a new experience.

What we touched upon:

4:44 This week's discovery: A great tool to increase your production

12:05 Chris about when tech is useful and when it isn’t (for a workshop, meeting & team collaboration)

17:02 Online meeting etiquette

18:15 Top 1: Our Favorite Video Conferencing Tool

25:20 Top 2: Our Favorite Online Whiteboard

32:02 Top 3: Our Favorite Tool for Interaction with your participants

38:30 Top 4: Our Favorite Tool for Workshop Preparation and Evaluation

40:53: Top 5: Our Favorite Non-Digital Tools

The ToDon’t List, download here: https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/todontlist/id1108348991?l=en (Apple) or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.todontlist (Android)

Zoom: https://www.zoom.us/

Miro: https://miro.com/

Menti: https://www.mentimeter.com/

Google Forms / Typeform: https://docs.google.com/forms and https://www.typeform.com/

Experiment with Playdoh or Lego: https://playdoh.hasbro.com/ and https://www.lego.com/

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More 🔥stuff for you:

Our Miro Template for the Perfect Meeting: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_kpx6_QE=/

Originally published on 28th April 2020

My guest for this podcast episode is Nicolas Arroyo, Founding Partner of Copenhagen-based strategic foresight firm bespoke. bespoke helps organizations to identify drivers and signals of change and imagine better future scenarios. So a very relevant topic during times of COVID-19 and an even more changing world. 

With Nic I chatted about remote workshop facilitation and remote work, about changes in consumer behavior caused by Covid-19 and how to take this as an opportunity while staying positive. Nic explained how a Strategic Foresight company works, what Signals of Change and Trends are and why we can all create our own preferred version of the future.

Find bespoke online: https://www.bespokecph.com/

Follow Nic on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicnaar/ 

Register for bespoke’s Futures Design Camp online starting 5th May: https://courses.bespokecph.com/camp

What we talked about:

4.56 Nic talks about the differences between Remote and On-Site Work and the current changes to our work lives caused by COVID-19

10.00 What will our new work life look like after the crisis?

13.00 What a Strategic Foresight Company does and examples of current Signals of Change

25.00 Flight shaming as a Signal of Change and how COVID-19 might influence future business trips

33.30 Why Nic loves to go to Japan

43:44 Can a business really design its own future?

Originally published on 21st April 2021

Wir sind zurück mit der letzten Folge der aktuellen Staffel unseres dorris meets Podcasts, in der ich Gründerinnen und Gründer getroffen habe, die sich im Bereich Sustainability engagieren. 

Unser Gast im Podcast heute ist Varena Junge, Gründerin der Hamburger Startups Enyway und Yook. Varena ist Unternehmerin von ganzem Herzen und beschäftigt sich seit ihrem 15. Lebensjahr bereits mit Themen wie Nachhaltigkeit und Umweltschutz.

Mit Varena spreche ich zum einen über das Gründen, was es bedeutet, Unternehmerin zu sein, wie für Varena alles begonnen hat und wie ihre Mission mit ihrem jüngsten Baby Yook aussieht.

2:28 Varena über ihr neues Startup Yook, die Entstehung der Idee, die ersten Schritte und die Komplexität, den CO2 Fußabdruck im Fashion-Bereich zu berechnen

9:36 Von der Idee zur Umsetzung: Wie Yook mit einem Prototypen gestartet ist, um die Produktidee zu testen und Varena anschließend die Suche nach einem passenden Co-Founder sehr strategisch angegangen ist

20:15 Der Start der Zusammenarbeit der beiden Yook Founder Varena und Antoine, die Integration der ersten Pilot-Shops und die erste Finanzierungsrunde

26:05 Die aktuellen Herausforderungen von Yook und wie das Unternehmen mit Hypothesen und Tests iterativ sein Konzept weiterentwickelt 

31:07 Wie Yook die Kaufentscheidungen von Fashion-Kunden positiv beeinflussen und verändern möchte

36:42 Wie aus Varena, der Umweltaktivistin, Varena, die Vollblut-Unternehmerin geworden ist

45:20 Über die Herausforderungen des neuen verteilten Arbeitens auf das Team, interne Prozesse und Arbeitsweisen

49:09 Wie jeder von uns eine Passion findet kann, die uns antreibt und aktiv werden lässt

👉 Useful links:

Varenas Unternehmen Yook: https://www.yook.one/

Varena auf LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/varena/

Originally published on 20th September 2020

This is a very special podcast episode. First, we are recording from our office in Copenhagen and then we have a guest again. But he is not just A guest, he is THE Mikael Colville-Andersen. 

Mikael is “The Pope of Urban Cycling”, once born in Canada, now a native citizen of Copenhagen. He works as an Urban designer with his own company and mobility expert all over the world and also hosts an urbanism documentary television series called “The Life-Sized City”. Mikael has held multiple talks around the world about the importance of cycling in the city, including two TED talks and he has published several books, among them “Copenhagenize - the definitive guide to global bicycle urbanism”. 

Chris chats with Mikael about how our cities have been changed in the past century, how Copenhagen and Amsterdam have become the role-models for urban planning worldwide and how we as citizens can re-conquer urban space. We talk in detail about how design is the answer to urban challenges why the strategy of cross-pollinating ideas in multi-diverse urban planning teams is the ultimate key.

This autumn, Mikael’s book „Copenhagenize - the definitive guide to global bicycle urbanism“ is being published in German language. Until then you can buy the English version here.

More info:

Listen to Mikael’s TED talks: Bicycle-Culture by Design and The Life-Sized City

For German viewers, ServusTV is broadcasting his Life-Sized City series regularly, just follow the Life-Sized City-Facebook Group to stay in the loop: https://www.facebook.com/lifesizedcity

Watch more of Mikael’s clips about bicycling and urban planning on his YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/16nine

Check out his websites https://www.colville-andersen.com/ and https://lifesizedcity.com/

What we touched upon in the podcast:

4:40 Copenhagen is the most bike-friendly city in the world - What have they done differently than Hamburg & Stockholm?

9.50 Bike usage rose from 0.2% to 7% in Seville: How to re-think a city and how to make use of best practices

17:34 Cycling Culture in Copenhagen - Why Design is the answer to solving Urban Challenges

22:33 Should Designers plan our cities? The importance of cross-pollination of ideas between engineers and urban designers and multi-diverse teams to solve urban challenges

28:20 Copenhageners are the most well behaved cyclists in the world and how nice little tweaks make bicycling even better

30:15 How to figure out what works - Pro

While our podcast is still on a creative break, hidorris founder Chris met Innovation Strategist and Futures Designer Anne Gorgy from Canada in Copenhagen. The two Kaospilot graduates had an inspiring and fun talk about Copenhagen, food, networking and experience design which answers questions such as:

• Why Copenhagen is one of the happiest places in the world [3.42]
• Are the Danes really so cold? - The power of coffee meetings and networking [6:40]
• What we can learn from Copenhagen's chefs [11:20]
• How we can create bonding and memorable experiences [20:03]
• What had a real impact on Chris and why she offers Learning Expeditions to Copenhagen [25:20] 

In the first episode of our new season „Inside the Box“ we introduce three great tools to build stronger teams and establish a trustful atmosphere in your company. Building upon our Workshop Format „The Team Resort“ we introduce you to the following tools:

#1 Checkin and Checkout [6.13]

When to use: at the beginning and the end of each meeting or workshop

What’s the purpose? Checking-in/out invites each team member to be present, seen, and heard. Checking-in emphasizes presence, focus, and group commitment; checking-out emphasizes reflection and closure.

Tool #2: Project Goals [13.03]

When to use: at the project’s kickoff. 

What’s the purpose? This tool can help provide clarity about “what success looks like”; uncover hidden assumptions about activities, outcomes, success, and failure; and identify potential causes of failure. Get your team aligned towards the same goals!

Tool #3: I appreciate - a Feedback exercise [19.30]

When to use? Effective feedback given regualrly is one of the most important ingredients in building constructive relationships and strong teams

What’s the purpose? Feedback helps your team members gain a growth mindset. Feedback creates a culture that enable learning and growth, which results in improved engagement and productivity.

👉 Find the Miro Template here: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_l7bnS6g=/ 

👉 The Book „Nonviolent Communication“ by Marshall B. Rosenberg can be found on Amazon

👉 More info on our "Team Resort" Workshop to build stronger teams: https://www.hidorris.com/the-playground#teamresort 

Wir sind zurück mit der letzten Folge der aktuellen Staffel unseres dorris meets Podcasts, in der ich Gründerinnen und Gründer getroffen habe, die sich im Bereich Sustainability engagieren. 

Unser Gast im Podcast heute ist Varena Junge, Gründerin der Hamburger Startups Enyway und Yook. Varena ist Unternehmerin von ganzem Herzen und beschäftigt sich seit ihrem 15. Lebensjahr bereits mit Themen wie Nachhaltigkeit und Umweltschutz.

Mit Varena spreche ich zum einen über das Gründen, was es bedeutet, Unternehmerin zu sein, wie für Varena alles begonnen hat und wie ihre Mission mit ihrem jüngsten Baby Yook aussieht.

2:28 Varena über ihr neues Startup Yook, die Entstehung der Idee, die ersten Schritte und die Komplexität, den CO2 Fußabdruck im Fashion-Bereich zu berechnen

9:36 Von der Idee zur Umsetzung: Wie Yook mit einem Prototypen gestartet ist, um die Produktidee zu testen und Varena anschließend die Suche nach einem passenden Co-Founder sehr strategisch angegangen ist

20:15 Der Start der Zusammenarbeit der beiden Yook Founder Varena und Antoine, die Integration der ersten Pilot-Shops und die erste Finanzierungsrunde

26:05 Die aktuellen Herausforderungen von Yook und wie das Unternehmen mit Hypothesen und Tests iterativ sein Konzept weiterentwickelt 

31:07 Wie Yook die Kaufentscheidungen von Fashion-Kunden positiv beeinflussen und verändern möchte

36:42 Wie aus Varena, der Umweltaktivistin, Varena, die Vollblut-Unternehmerin geworden ist

45:20 Über die Herausforderungen des neuen verteilten Arbeitens auf das Team, interne Prozesse und Arbeitsweisen

49:09 Wie jeder von uns eine Passion findet kann, die uns antreibt und aktiv werden lässt

👉 Useful links:

Varenas Unternehmen Yook: https://www.yook.one/

Varena auf LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/varena/

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