These days, it’s not uncommon to wonder if your attention span is getting worse.
If you feel this way, you aren’t wrong. And you aren’t alone.
If you’ve served on a board post-pandemic, you’ve maybe experienced some version of the following:
It’s 6:05. The meeting was supposed to start at 6, but only three of your board members have showed up.
Not to worry: There’s a virtual option, and four people are on Zoom in the waiting room. At least you have a quorum.
As the Zoomers join the meeting, their faces fill the screen and you’re hit with a mix of sounds — kids screaming, dishes clanking, horns honking. Yes, one of your board members has, in fact, joined the meeting from their car.
One of them is completely MIA — an avatar in the corner — and as you turn back to the small crowd gathered in person around the table, each person’s head is buried in either their phone or computer.
If you’re thinking I’m here to rail on virtual board meetings, I’m not.
As a Leader of LIGHT, you have an important challenge ahead of you: You have to grow yourself, and at the same time, you have to grow everyone around you. Balancing these two tasks can be very difficult.