Episode 34: Building communities

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11/16/23 • 36 min

What are the steps to building a thriving community? What challenges might you face along the way? In this episode, James and Josh draw on their experience of creating and building communities online and offline, sharing their insights on how to make it a success.

04 Starting a community
06 Building trust
08 Give value, not a sales pitch
10 Josh on building a conference
12 Creating a welcoming environment
15 Letting people know your weaknesses
16 Trust
17 Empathy
18 Dealing with conflict
20 Don’t fear conflict
22 Lack of commitment or direction
23 Inclusion
24 Avoidance of accountability
26 The enemy of accountability is ambiguity
27 Shared ownership
30 Rethinking views
31 Diversity

Resources:

https://www.executiveagenda.com/resources/blog/five-dysfunctions-team

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04 Starting a community
06 Building trust
08 Give value, not a sales pitch
10 Josh on building a conference
12 Creating a welcoming environment
15 Letting people know your weaknesses
16 Trust
17 Empathy
18 Dealing with conflict
20 Don’t fear conflict
22 Lack of commitment or direction
23 Inclusion
24 Avoidance of accountability
26 The enemy of accountability is ambiguity
27 Shared ownership
30 Rethinking views
31 Diversity

Resources:

https://www.executiveagenda.com/resources/blog/five-dysfunctions-team

Find out more about Stac and Parallax:

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Episode 33: AI ethics

AI ethics - a hot, divisive topic and rightly so. James and Josh are back with a brand new episode of Off Script to dig in and explore a space that is impacting our lives more and more.

01 Intro
02 Applied AI event
03 Bethan Vincent's talk
03 Jack Sails’ talk
06 Outcomes are not determined by intentions
07 EU Cookie law
09 Tech can’t be decided by those who know the least about the tech
10 Regulation
11 AI marking of papers
12 Only as good as the dataset it is trained on
13 Why as a company would we use this?
14 Disclaimers
15 AI Consultancy
18 Risk
19 Oxford Uni CapAI implementation
20 What happens when things don’t go right?
22 Accountability
25 The Trolley problem
27 Deontology
28 The moral machine self driving car
29 7 Things to consider when implementing AI in your business
30 Fluency bot for Slack and confluence

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Episode 35: Understanding emotional states

Any team will have a variety of emotional states when responding to problems. How do you analyse, understand and make meaningful decisions based on these differences? In this episode, James and Josh discuss different methods of understanding a team’s characteristics and how taking these into account can lead you to getting the best out of everyone.