Silence in team meetings

This time, we have welcomed Stina Rydell Brøgger, PhD student at Aarhus University and currently visiting Université de Montréal. Stina’s doctoral project is named ‘I fear, we are creating an organization for the people that speak loudest’ – A diversity and inclusion study of introverted employees, and in our session, we discussed an excerpt from a team meeting collected in a Danish e-commerce house.

This excerpt was chosen because it illustrates a shift in the meeting structure, specifically the participation and interaction among the team members. This shift occurs after the project manager has invited the meeting participants to reflect on the topic at hand (the team process) by initiating 2 minutes of silent reflection. Stina shared a transcription of the audio recording of the meeting along with a picture of a central material artifact from the meeting, which we then jointly explored.

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Journey of this dataset & idea

Conference paper presented by Stina Rydell Brøgger and François Cooren at the 2023 Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division.