The quality of a meeting, and its outcomes owes a lot to the level of participation and engagement within it. If a proportion of your participants are becoming uninvolved, or even bored, then you are unlikely to benefit from their ideas, insights and subsequent commitment in making things happen. You are also wasting their time by taking them away from making progress on their other responsibilities.
Online meeting participation is key to meeting efficiency. Our article: Six easy ways to increase participation in your next virtual meeting, addresses this directly. It looks at some very simple and easy to use techniques to ensure online meeting participation. Thereby keeping everybody engaged and contributing to the meeting.
the more people contribute, the more they own
Because the more they contribute, even in very small ways, the more they own. And as they build ownership, they will want to ensure it succeeds. They will put in ideas, raise concerns, share experience, and bring new insights. As a result, the energy will lift, and others will also become more enthused. And there will be greater commitment to delivering the outcomes.
The six easy ways are only a starting point. But they are a good start, and will bring immediate benefits. And as you grow in confidence, you can graduate to using our free participative templates. And to understanding more about online meetings and how to get the very best out of them.
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About the Meeting Toolchest blog: We have recently rearranged to Toolchest Blog for a number of reasons. Firstly, we wanted to reflect a greater volume of relevant content. And we wanted to include content from a wider range of sources. Secondly, we wanted to make blog items short and pithy. In this way we wanted to convey an overall sense of key developments without bogging people down in detail. Although, we do provide greater detail in our Articles section, and through external links. Thirdly, we wanted a means to more easily engage people. And we wanted something that could be easily shared via social media.
We want to increase people’s familiarity with developments in virtual meetings. In this way, we hope that it is more likely that they will try things out. And as a result, they will increase the quality and participation in their own meetings. We hope this will generate happier and more effective work places, and a reduction in workplace stress.
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