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In the Same Room Does Not Mean on the Same Page (#286)
Posted: 7/16/2002; 4:44 PM by Terry Frazier
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How many times have you heard it said -- "Sometimes you just have to all get in the same room." Well, I've been in that room. And I can tell you that when 27 people walk out that door to go their 27 separate ways, they hold 27 different ideas about what they heard, what it means, and what they should do about it.

This cuts to the core of what goes wrong in many virtual teams and virtual organizations. Conference calls don't get it. More meetings don't help. The only thing that helps is getting people to expose what they are thinking in an open fashion. This essay at Technography is well worth your time. It is short, pithy, and to the point.

I don't know where he finds this stuff. This page has an original post date of January 1999. But Ron Lusk has done it again.

Technography: Group Journaling.

So here's the problem: Presentations, all be they clear, graphic, succinct, perhaps entertaining and even electronic presentations, do not a consensus build.

When all is said, and all the presentation presented, and the doing has to get done, the page we're on is not the same anymore. We each have a somewhat different understanding of what we supposedly learned. Informed as we have supposedly become, the information isn't part of our common knowledge. via [Ron Lusk's Radio Weblog]
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