“I wonder why everyone looks completely checked out?” Susan thinks to herself, seeing nothing but yawns and phone checking among the 38 staff attending her late morning meeting. As the CEO of a technology startup, Terri couldn’t wait to share nine new revenue strategies she had for Q4. Yet despite all her enthusiasm for the rollout, she just couldn’t seem…
Read MoreIn the following Saturday Night Live sketch, we get to see just about everything that can go wrong in a Zoom meeting. Yet some planning and structure can turn the most average video-conference into an engaging and results-focused session that leaves no one wondering, “couldn’t this have been an email or a handout instead?” As a lot of working life…
Read MoreYou’ve just sat through your sixth Zoom meeting this week. You’ve been presenting, running gatherings, or just sitting and listening to others speak for what seems like endless hours on end. With reduced mobility, excessive eye-contact, and increased cognitive load, Zoom fatigue is real. A report by the Goodman Center found that videoconferences take up too much of working life,…
Read MoreI have a secret to share. Just as there are movie critics, I’m a meeting critic. I don’t think there’s a meeting I’ve sat through in the past decade that I haven’t dissected like a 10th grade biology student examining a frog. It doesn’t matter if it’s a monthly scheduled meeting, an impromptu gathering among three people, or a general…
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