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

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

If a spoken communication was to exist given in front of a live audience, it is now delivered every bit a webinar. Aforementioned content. Same delivery method. Simply now in forepart of a photographic camera instead of 1,000 faces.

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

Asking Meliorate Questions Nigh Meetings

To create better meetings, nosotros need to ask dissimilar questions. What if we didn't just replicate, simply instead nosotros innovated? Here are some questions that might get your thinking differently most your next virtual meeting:

  • What can nosotros do in virtual meetings that we can't do with alive in-person meetings? How can we take total reward of virtual options? For example, how can we accept advantage of the ability to break people into smaller groups instantly - for short periods of time? How tin can nosotros use polling to drive the management of the conversation - and make existent-time shifts in the content?
  • What aspects of meetings do not require existent-time participation? For those, what other options practice we have for delivering that content? How can we maximize the value we get from the alive virtual meeting? For example, how can we limit the live virtual experience to the interactive components, and deliver the residue via pre-recorded video that is sent prior to the meeting?
  • How can we go across the meeting? What processes can we put in identify to sustain results over the long-term? What happens after the event? For example, how can we go attendees to utilise the concepts from the meting? How tin can nosotros create cohorts that tackle real-world problems? How can we measure out the actual impact of a meeting? How can nosotros appoint people long later the meeting is over?
  • When we return to contiguous meetings, what aspects of virtual meetings will go along to out-perform the in-person meeting? For example, how can we utilise engineering science before and after an event to maximize the value nosotros get from the live coming together?

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

Don't Replicate or Automate, Innovate

The point is, don't only replicate or automate what you have done in the past. Rethink the entire meeting experience: earlier, during, and after the event. Use applied science the best style possible to get the best results. Sometimes the ideal solution isn't a live meeting.