virtual collaboration
Team collaboration may be tricky within the best of that time period, nonetheless it are going to be interesting to observe how completely virtual meetings will try out this # that is further********************************************); particularly if we add strained WiFi, the training curve of more folks learning new videoconferencing tools, and wanting to juggle kids within the background.
Videoconferencing technology has advanced (and kudos to Zoom for announcing on Friday they might offer free access to K-12 schools). But perhaps the videoconferencing technology can&# that is best8217;t save unproductive meetings.
As Bob Frisch and Cary Greene wrote within an HBR article this ( week***********)
“As soon as one or two attendees ‘dial in’ to any meeting, productivity starts to suffer … Attendees often interpret virtual meetings as a license to multi-task. Meeting organizers tend to be less careful with the purpose and design of the conversation. And it’s not uncommon for one or two attendees to dominate the discussion while others sit back and ‘tune out.’”
Bad meeting habits are amplified by going virtual. Which means this is really a time that is good rethink exactly how we hold meetings, beginning with when you should have meetings, who really has to be there, the goal of the meeting, and exactly how to actual facilitate the meeting.
A few weeks hence, I wrote concerning the meeting culture at DBS Bank they call MOJO. Every meeting features a MO and a JO. Because they put it:
“The MO is the meeting owner, who’s responsible for ensuring that the meeting has a clear agenda, that it starts and ends on time, and that all attendees are given an equal say. The JO – or joyful observer – is assigned to help the meeting run crisply and to encourage broad participation.”
below are a few cartoons that are related8217;ve drawn through the years: