My new eBook Thrive With Remote Meetings is a collection of nearly ten years of experience working remotely. It is filled with insights, methods, and templates to design and run more productive remote meetings.
In early 2020, thousands of organizations switched from physical offices to a remote working environment, practically overnight. Few have had time to prepare for this, lest deal with the stress of a worldwide pandemic on top of everything else. No wonder that many feel burnt out and experience remote work as ineffective and inhumane.
However, what you’re currently experiencing isn’t remote work at its best. It’s remote work as an emergency solution. Remote work and meetings can do so much better. What you’re missing is guidance to become more intentional about choosing the right type of meeting and how to prepare it well.
Meetings are an important aspect of remote work. The meeting techniques you used in a physical office will not work the same way in a remote environment. When conversations are no longer face-to-face, we need to rethink our approach on how to design and run meetings.
My new eBook aims to provide a toolbox so that everybody can have meetings that are just as productive as face-to-face meetings. The insights, tools, and methods in this guide are specifically designed to help you run more productive remote meetings.
Knowing what type of meeting you are planning will increase its success
Consider the desired outcomes of the meeting you’re planning. Is your aim to give people a status update on a project? To gain people’s input on a new idea? To conduct a regular 1–1?
The most important thing to consider is to make the synchronous time together count. At the end of the day, remote meetings are more taxing on the body and brain that meetings IRL. Therefore, the goal is to reduce unnecessary synchronous meeting time and turn them into quality time with your team.
Meetings that broadcast information are often unnecessary. Outsource information broadcasting to meeting pre-work and set clear expectations of what is required to attend a meeting well prepared. For example, if the goal of your meeting is to provide a status update in order to make a decision, provide the status update in the form of a recorded artefact prior to the meeting. That way your actual meeting can focus on making the decision.
The overview below describes six meeting types and the tools to consider. Download my free eBook for a more detailed description of how to run each type of remote meeting more effectively.
Summary of 6 meeting types from my new eBook ‘Thrive With Remote Meetings’
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