The way nosotros conduct meetings changed over dark. Or has information technology?

Given we are no longer able to encounter in person, event organizers and professional person speakers take been scrambling to recreate their live meetings using virtual platforms. In other words, automate what has been done in the by.

If a voice communication was to be given in front of a alive audience, it is now delivered as a webinar. Same content. Same delivery method. But at present in front of a photographic camera instead of 1,000 faces.

Unfortunately, nearly every virtual coming together I have attended but tried to replicate the contiguous experience - and it failed.

Asking Ameliorate Questions Near Meetings

To create better meetings, we need to inquire different questions. What if we didn't just replicate, but instead we innovated? Here are some questions that might get your thinking differently about your next virtual coming together:

  • What tin can nosotros practise in virtual meetings that we can't do with live in-person meetings? How can we take full reward of virtual options? For example, how can we take advantage of the ability to break people into smaller groups instantly - for brusk periods of time? How can we use polling to drive the management of the conversation - and make real-fourth dimension shifts in the content?
  • What aspects of meetings do non crave real-fourth dimension participation? For those, what other options do we have for delivering that content? How can we maximize the value we get from the live virtual meeting? For example, how can we limit the alive virtual feel to the interactive components, and deliver the residue via pre-recorded video that is sent prior to the meeting?
  • How can nosotros become beyond the meeting? What processes can we put in place to sustain results over the long-term? What happens after the event? For example, how can nosotros become attendees to utilize the concepts from the meting? How tin we create cohorts that tackle real-world problems? How tin can we measure the actual touch on of a meeting? How can we appoint people long afterwards the coming together is over?
  • When nosotros render to face-to-confront meetings, what aspects of virtual meetings will continue to out-perform the in-person coming together? For example, how can nosotros utilize engineering before and later on an outcome to maximize the value nosotros become from the live coming together?

This is just a starter listing of questions. There are literally dozens (or hundreds) of dissimilar questions that yous could ask that would reveal previously invisible solutions.

Don't Replicate or Automate, Introduce

The betoken is, don't but replicate or automate what y'all take washed in the past. Rethink the entire coming together experience: before, during, and after the event. Use technology the best way possible to get the best results. Sometimes the ideal solution isn't a live meeting.