Changing times demand adaptation from all. People and businesses have had to adapt due to the vicious cycle of nature. There are various ways in which life can unnerve people from change. It is merely in the way a human mind craves routine. Before being obligated by social distancing and self-isolation, employees went through the day and meetings like any other day. The one’s who were presenting had to make sure everyone got the brief.
However, it was easy to do back then with everyone being physically present at the same table. Now, things have changed. Digitization and remote work have made it harder for organizations to sustain proper communication and a direct marketing loop. The gap in connectivity also makes it hard for people to get things done in coordination with a team. Which is why video meetings are being made more and more utilizable in the corporate sector. Instead of the recent apps and meeting rooms being available to people, it is being seen that video meetings don’t add to work efficiency or better coordination. Here’s how video meetings can be made better.
Include a Facilitator
A senior who can act as the facilitator would be a great addition to meetings, or they could worse than the parliament. The lack of a facilitator divides people into group thinking and airtime hogging. That way, most people are either left out of these groups or don’t contribute much by listening to every view.
And then everyone gets into their own ideas of working on a project that needs to combined planning and execution. A facilitator can get these issues resolved by including everyone in the meeting by controlling the conversation and bringing in perspectives from all attendants.
Bring in Combined Perspective
Having a combined perspective from people in the entire organization can help you make decisions that have zero rebounds or agitating actions. For example, you can have opinions from a client perspective by inviting a brand loyal customer to your meetings on product development or evaluation of a business.
In case you’re running campaigns or making policies for employee client relations, you can take your ideal employees to the video meeting and let them give in their opinions on the matter. You can take decisions for the work of every managerial sect without having further discussions on non-compliance due to employees or managers not conforming to the decisions.
Knowing People Closely
Everyone who is considered to be known in an organization gives efficient output for a better chance to showcase their skills. It is always good to know your workforce closely. One way to do it would be to at least remember what their names are. When you address people by their exact names, it grabs their attention with a tighter grip on their selves. Since video meeting platforms show the names of people on their video screen, you would not have much trouble with it.
If you’re meeting people for the first time, it’s better to know their names along with the nicknames that they have around the workplace. It builds trust among the employees and gives a better output. Always know how to pronounce names and make it clear in the first conversation you have with the person. You wouldn’t want to embarrass the person on a live video feed.
Clear the Majority Opinions
Video meeting platforms today allow us to share a lot of things over ongoing video meets, live screens, presentations, graphic work, and even polls. The use of polls can be beneficial to the efficiency of coordination and teamwork. Sharing a poll and taking confirmations on an idea or decision can easily deviate the attendants’ conformity towards the majority’s decision. Thus, making the latter part of the meeting more focused on how to improve the general idea of the project.
Allow Recording and Transcripts
Work from home conditions is not entirely pleasant for every person at the meeting. Some people are also mothers, fathers, and serving children who care for their parents. There might also be other probabilities of not being able to grasp certain minutes from the meeting. Making transcription of chats and recording of calls available to everyone will make sure that they don’t fall out of the loop, and the work comes along as decided.
Even though physical meeting rooms have always been advisable by employers, tech-enabled meeting and presentation sessions have proved to be more pragmatic. The very inclusion of things like chats and recordings lessen the burden over employees by making it easier to go over the details again and again. The change, although still being learned by many, is going to make things happen at a faster pace very soon.
