Does the idea of inviting stakeholder engagement in all your meetings worry you? Or can you see the benefits for a wider perspective and greater responsibility in your people? Do you fear that stakeholder participation might be disruptive? For example, if they hear things they don’t like?
But, it is impractical anyway, right?
virtual meeting – virtual stakeholder engagement
Not entirely. And the practical approach to it may do much to alleviate your fears in the questions above.
In our article: Inviting a Virtual Customer to your next online meeting, we reflect on an approach taken by Siemens. And we illustrate how the whole thing could be a lot easier (and less threatening) than you realise.
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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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