![]() ![]() Use the polling feature in Zoom to get input. You can increase impact and engagement by getting participants to DO stuff, to interact.įor example, use the annotation feature in zoom to have participants make marks on a picture. Speaking of which, that brings me to my next point. I’ve outlined some examples of interactive techniques above but there are loads more. Great meetings add in three pathways hearing, seeing and doing. When you’re on your phone looking for an app, you look for the app picture not the name of the app. This is incredibly important because our brains interpret pictures 600,000 times faster than text (Source: Power of visual storytelling by Ekaterina Walter and Jessica Gioglio which was one of my top reads from 2018). Good meetings use two, which are usually hearing and seeing. That’s when one person drones on and on and on and on and… You get the picture (or the audio clip). Woefully bad meetings rely on only one and that’s usually hearing. The three pathways or forms of communication/learning are: hearing, seeing and doing. That means that your pathway, which you see as free and clear, is actually a roadblock for others. More alarmingly, because we all have different preferences, the pathway you’re using is almost certainly not the pathway that everyone on your call prefers. If you think about different pathways for information to enter the brain, this is like using only one path when three exist. Most online meetings rely on one form of communication/learning preference. Source: Kirby Crider, Learning Technology Specialist via TechChange. Use contractions instead of more formal language (eg. And no, I don’t mean what I call HDR (getting heavy, deep and real) but rather some very simple gestures. People respond best with a personal touch. Have participants share what their top 3 action items are from the meeting.Have folks hold their hand at the leve that reflects their energy, with the bottom of the screen being super low energy and the top of the screen being super high energy Do the same only use the screen like a continuum.Using a scale of 1 to 5 (or something funny like this scale) get participants to rate their energy level.Get folks to write in the chat what their number one priority is for the meeting.Ask everyone to unmute themselves for a minute and on the count of 3 to yell hello.If you’re working with a global group, ask them to write in the chat what city/town/village they’re in.Ask participants to put in the chat what room in the house they’re working from.Here are some examples to pick from and to get your own ideas flowing: The specific ways you chose to check in will depend on how many people you’re online with, how well they know each other etc. Before your eyeballs roll to the back of your head and you sigh in exasperation so loud that you blow the papers off your desk, know this is super easy to do. In fact, to stave off multitasking aim for some form of check in every 5-10 minutes. ![]() Make sure you check in through the entire meeting. You are showing that you care about people’s participation plus you’re getting participants to practice using the tech in a simple win-win way. Hot tip: has the added bonus of not only being a tech check but setting the stage for interaction from the get go. Ask them to put their answer in the chat and/or unmute themselves to answer. Ask participants if they can see you, if they can hear you. As soon as you start your meeting make sure you do a simple tech check. ![]() While people are getting used to working virtually from home, tech tools can still be a major barrier. Here’s how to remove the roadblocks to dry, dull meetings and increase your impact and fully use 100% of the ways to communicate and learn online. Do you want to be the team leader whose online meetings your staff WANT to come to?ĭo you want to radically increase the chances that people are engaged, give their input and take action after your meetings? Now that we’ve got you up and running with Zoom ( Six simple tips for running better Zoom meetings) it’s time to take it to the next level with your next online meeting. Missing two-thirds of the potential ways to communicate and learnĬonversely, when people are engaged and interacting, impact, collaboration, input and taking action all amp up.People multitask during online meetings when there are roadblocks to participation, roadblocks to learning. What causes people to multi-task and lose focus? Yes more than 9 out of every 10 people multitask during online meetings. We do ourselves a disservice because we increase the chances that people are multitasking even more than 93% norm (Source: TechChange). We stab ourselves in the foot when we hold dull meetings period but especially when we hold dull online meetings. Why oh why do we humans think that online meetings have to be officious and monotonous? That boring, dry, and dull online meetings are the only way? Or that they make any kind of impact?
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