Effective Video Meetings (Live)

Running an effective video meeting can be challenging. We've all read the emerging studies about Zoom exhaustion in which we experience a special kind of fatigue in the video meeting space that we don't experience in the face-to-face one. If you run a digital meeting with your colleagues, the strategies will be slightly different than if you are running a digital classroom due to the potential attention span of your audience. When possible, I encourage you to keep your video meetings to no more than 10 and no fewer than 6 people in order to maximize engagement without exhausting yourself tabbing through everyone's video feed to look for body language cues every few seconds. Keep it small enough that you can see all your colleagues or students on a single screen, all at once, and use a medium that allows you to mute microphones and webcams for participants if possible.