Business meetings shouldn’t be all business. At the start of every meeting one leader I worked with always said: “We don’t get a lot of time together, so let’s take a moment for the people part of us. What’s going on in your life that you’d like to share?”

Researchers at MIT identified social support as one characteristic of effective teams. Taking a moment to share can help build that support.

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