Do your virtual team meetings need more focus? Engagement? Better results? In the first of a series of videos, Carolyn Ellis of BrillianceMastery.com shares her tips to help you create conversations that count!
TIP #1: Virtual Meetings That Don’t Suck – Start with the End in Mind
Transcript of Video
Hello, everyone, it’s Carolyn Ellis from Brilliance Mastery. Thank you for watching this short video today!
It’s been several months now that we’ve been dealing with working and meeting in virtual spaces. I think we’re getting better at it, I really do! But I want to share with you in this next series of short videos in the Virtual Meetings that Don’t Suck series, some of the tips I find we still need to embed into our virtual meeting spaces.
Because after all, what we’re trying to do is create conversations that count. We don’t want our meetings online and on screen to feel like just like you are binge watching the latest Netflix movie, where you click off the meeting and you forget everything you just saw. We want to have impact. We want to make decisions together and use people’s time and gather their expertise in those forums, so we can make great decisions. Seriously, don’t we all need our best thinking caps on right now? There is so much change happening at such a rapid pace.
In today’s video, I want to share with you one really important tip, which is – good old Stephen Covey, he said it best – we need to begin with the end in mind. What is it you expect to have happen at the end of that discussion? Does it even need to be an online meeting? What is the outcome that you’re going for?
When we decide to meet virtually online, let’s not just make it a default knee jerk reaction, some habit that we used to have when it was easy for us to grab people into a boardroom, peel them away from their work and their email, and get folks in a room talking together.
We need to really value people’s time and attention and use all of the tools at our disposal to converse with each other, to do our brainstorming and problem solving together. When we begin with the end in mind, we have clarity about where we want to end up. We need to reverse engineer the best way to design a conversation that counts to get us there.
I’ll share more about you with that in our next video in the Virtual Meetings that Don’t Suck series. Thank you so much for your time and attention.
Missed a tip? You can check out other “Virtual Meetings that Don’t Suck” video tips by clicking below:
Tip 2 – Less is More
Tip 3 – Engage at the Start
Tip 4 – Wisdom is in the Room
Tip 5 – Dynamic Game Plan
Tip 6 – Watch Your Costs
Tip 7 – Digestion Time
Tip 8 – Leading Through Connecting
