The way nosotros conduct meetings changed over night. Or has it?

Given we are no longer able to run into in person, outcome 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 past.

If a spoken communication was to be given in front of a alive audition, information technology is now delivered as a webinar. Same content. Same delivery method. But now in front of a camera instead of i,000 faces.

Unfortunately, nearly every virtual meeting I have attended but tried to replicate the face-to-face experience - and it failed.

Asking Better Questions About Meetings

To create meliorate meetings, we demand to ask different questions. What if we didn't only replicate, but instead we innovated? Here are some questions that might become your thinking differently about your next virtual meeting:

  • What can we do in virtual meetings that we can't do with live in-person meetings? How tin nosotros accept full advantage of virtual options? For instance, how can we have advantage of the power to break people into smaller groups instantly - for brusque periods of fourth dimension? How can we apply polling to drive the direction of the conversation - and make real-time shifts in the content?
  • What aspects of meetings do not crave existent-time participation? For those, what other options do we accept for delivering that content? How can we maximize the value we get from the live virtual meeting? For example, how tin we limit the live virtual feel to the interactive components, and deliver the rest via pre-recorded video that is sent prior to the meeting?
  • How can we go beyond the meeting? What processes can we put in place to sustain results over the long-term? What happens subsequently the event? For example, how can we go attendees to apply the concepts from the meting? How can nosotros create cohorts that tackle existent-globe problems? How tin can we measure the actual impact of a meeting? How can nosotros engage people long after the meeting is over?
  • When we return to contiguous meetings, what aspects of virtual meetings will go on to out-perform the in-person meeting? For example, how can we use technology before and subsequently an event to maximize the value we get from the live meeting?

This is just a starter list of questions. There are literally dozens (or hundreds) of different questions that you could inquire that would reveal previously invisible solutions.

Don't Replicate or Automate, Innovate

The point is, don't simply replicate or automate what you have washed in the past. Rethink the entire coming together experience: earlier, during, and subsequently the event. Utilize technology the best style possible to become the best results. Sometimes the ideal solution isn't a live meeting.