Connecting with Total Strangers

For the last week or so I’ve been interacting with a group of the world’s top transformational HR gurus who are leading the biggest people revolution on the planet. I saw they were having these amazing HumansFirst meetups, and just assumed that it was some kind of exclusive club.

I’m not an HR professional, but consider myself a Human Relations professional since we have been doing physical and virtual Connection Workshops for many years with great success. I am usually the chief organizer of the event, and not really a participant.

I headed into this zoom meeting with a group of total strangers with my ego leading the way, thinking how interesting it would be to see how other people do zoom workshops. Also thinking of course, that our method is probably a far superior method to theirs.

You can probably guess what happened. The #HumansFirst hangout workshop was identical to the Connection Workshops we do in every possible way. There was the fun warmup part where we synced the team, the workshop part where we all answered some questions, and the concluding part where we all talked about how we felt during the workshop. And even when it was all over, we were all feeling so connected and so buzzed from the powerful workshop we had gone through that we stayed on for another 15 minutes past the scheduled time.

I told them they are a very advanced group of humans who are already on the next stage of…

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