[TBD]Virtual meeting tips

Introduction

Virtual meeting challenges

• • system issues

  • Lack of engagement

  • I can't read their face

  • Attendees mutli-tasking while attending the virtual meetings

    • Attendee looking at phone or doing other stuffs

Tips

• • Make audience free to talk at beginning

  • Share rule of meetings

    • Keep phone mute

    • Shut messenger/email

  • Be sure to mention agenda at very beginning of meeting. Share it beforehand in invitation as well

  • Agenda makes the common mindset on attendees

    • Only relevant people join

    • Focussed meeting is possible

  • Ask questions before announcing meetings

    • Who?

    • Why?

    • What ?

    • When?

    • Where?

    • How?

  • Beforehand try to list what can go wrong in the meeting and work on them

  • Remind team about agenda whenever they divert

Tips to engage people

• • Give roles to participants

  • Ask questions

  • Ask feedback

Tips to break silence in meeting

• • Ask questions

  • Be comfortable to silence

  • Ask audiences to start video

  • Ask audiences why so much silence

Tips for out of context input in the meeting

• • Ask how it is related to meeting agenda

Good about virtual meetings

• Capabilities to split into different workgroups / getting to workshop technics

Good questions

• • Why

  • Any open question which let audience thinks

  • Any question which makes audiences arrive at the outcome

  • Question which are missed by audiences in discussion

Case study

Virtual meeting training

• • Ask person's joining location and tell something about the place

  • Show the world map and ask everyone where they want to go

Reference

http://www.mandela.ac.za/cyberhunts/bloom.htm