Nick Himowicz: simple work hacks from creating flow, reducing distraction and improving meetings

The Friction Free podcast series is brought to you by Onefish Twofish: www.onefishcomms.co.uk

In this 45-minute conversation with Nick Himowicz - part of our extended Onefish team and founder of Mind Apps - you will hear:

• Starting to make visible some of the invisible ways we have of working together (like how we use email) so that they can be designed and improved
• The difference between people who believe that their intelligence and capabilities are static and can’t be improved (fixed mindset) and those who believe they can improve, learn and grow (growth mindset) and why that has a profound impact on how much effort people are willing to put in.
• Spotting and exiting parent-child approaches to developing your people and conversely responding to the “You tell us, you’re the expert” approach
• The role of leaders in championing the concept of growth mindset and getting information flowing around a company, in all directions
• How to listen to customers (and actually listen), making space for it, making it easy to log and making sure it’s always top of the agenda
• What is flow, what are the conditions for flow, and why the smartphone is the single biggest smasher of your flow
• Understanding some of the tricks smartphone interface designers use to steal OUR attention to make THEIR business more valuable
• How to set your phone up so that it works for YOU not the company you bought it from (including using settings you have probably never seen like turning all your icons to black and white) 
• How to use Edward de Bono’s Six Thinking Hats to separate out the spaghetti of a meeting conversation into clear stages of thinking that allow groups to work closely together
• Why operating in different modes (or ‘hats’) can create friction and frustration
• And how we can work together in the same mode for example separating out strategic thinking about what SHOULD be done from exploring what information and data you have to help you do it and from discussing how we FEEL about a situation

We reference:

• Carol S. Dweck - a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. Dweck is known for her work on the mindset psychological trait
• Gary Vaynerchuk @garyvee - The Value of a 3-Minute Call 
• Edward de Bono is commonly acknowledged as the father of lateral thinking and author of Six Thinking Hats

Find Nick via Onefish Twofish and here:
On Twitter @nickhimo
www.getmindapps.com 

Find Onefish Twofish here:
on Twitter @onefishcomms and @cbedingfield
https://www.onefishcomms.co.uk

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