As a consultant and employee in the learning field for 20 years, I’ve seen my fair share of meetings—strategy, budgetary, sales, realignments—you name it. But perhaps the most impactful meeting was one that should not have happened the way it did.
I was the lone consultant in a room of 20 executive, senior, and midlevel leaders discussing a recent manufacturing accident that had majorly affected the company’s manufacturing process, effectively shutting down operations. One