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

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

If a speech communication was to be given in front of a live audience, it is now delivered as a webinar. Aforementioned content. Same delivery method. But now in front of a photographic camera instead of i,000 faces.

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

Asking Better Questions About Meetings

To create better meetings, we need to ask unlike questions. What if nosotros didn't just replicate, only instead we innovated? Here are some questions that might become your thinking differently about your next virtual coming together:

  • What can nosotros do in virtual meetings that nosotros can't do with live in-person meetings? How can we take full advantage of virtual options? For example, how tin nosotros take reward of the ability to pause people into smaller groups instantly - for brusk periods of fourth dimension? How can we use polling to drive the direction of the conversation - and make real-time shifts in the content?
  • What aspects of meetings do non crave real-fourth dimension participation? For those, what other options practice nosotros have for delivering that content? How can nosotros maximize the value we get from the live virtual meeting? For instance, how can we limit the live virtual experience to the interactive components, and deliver the balance via pre-recorded video that is sent prior to the meeting?
  • How tin nosotros go beyond the meeting? What processes can we put in identify to sustain results over the long-term? What happens after the event? For case, how can we get attendees to apply the concepts from the meting? How can nosotros create cohorts that tackle real-world problems? How can we measure the actual bear upon of a meeting? How can we engage people long after the meeting is over?
  • When nosotros render to face-to-face meetings, what aspects of virtual meetings will keep to out-perform the in-person meeting? For instance, how can we use technology before and after an effect to maximize the value we become from the live meeting?

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

Don't Replicate or Automate, Innovate

The signal is, don't simply replicate or automate what yous have done in the by. Rethink the entire meeting experience: before, during, and subsequently the outcome. Use technology the best way possible to get the best results. Sometimes the ideal solution isn't a live meeting.