Doing business on Zoom, WebEx, Teams and the like presents many challenges: the inability to read body language, video call fatigue, reduced participation of introverted team members, technical glitches, and so on. But what’s been overlooked is that these virtual platforms also give managers an extraordinary set of “superpowers”: the ability to do things in meetings that were either unthinkable or enormously challenging in the old days of conference tables and flip charts.
3 Things Virtual Meetings Offer That In-Person Ones Don’t
If you’re not using the poll function, you’re doing it wrong.
July 23, 2020
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Summary.
Virtual platforms give managers the ability to do things in their meetings that are more challenging in person. As more companies move to remote work in a post-Covid-19 area, executives need to understand, explore, and use the advanced online meeting tools at their disposal. These include polling that takes certainty of conviction into account, more flexible offsites that include more people in more diverse groups, and brainstorming with breakout rooms and shared-screen consensus-building.