The pandemic accelerated the use and evolution of videoconference technology to enable virtual meetings from PCs, tablets, and phones. If you’re in a hotel or other temporary meeting space and multiple microphones aren’t a viable option, consider supplementing your audio input by having in-person attendees pass around a hand-held microphone before speaking. To avoid a last-minute scramble caused by poor audio, make sure the room is equipped with enough high-quality microphones so remote participants can hear. Pre-Covid, we often heard remote participants say, “I’m sorry, can you get a little closer to the speakerphone and repeat what you just said?” Now, they expect to hear everything clearly - just as they can on Zoom. Yet while a lot of attention is paid to the visual aspects of meetings, audio is often overlooked until the last minute. While remote participants need to see who is talking and what’s taking place in the meeting room, great audio is actually more critical. Just as executives learned how to run great virtual meetings over this past year, they now need to learn how to conduct great hybrid meetings as well.ĭrawing from our combined half-century of experience designing and facilitating meetings for executive teams and boards, we’ve assembled eight best practices to help make your hybrid meetings more effective: 1. They are easy to do poorly and hard to do well - remote participants are only one slip-up away from losing that first-class status. There’s simply no going back to the world of “squawk boxes” on the conference room table, with those on the phone straining to hear, being “talked over” when trying to speak, or guessing what’s on that PowerPoint slide on a screen only their colleagues in the room can see.Īs Satya Nadella, Microsoft’s CEO recently put it, “We want to ensure those joining remotely are always first-class participants.”īut hybrid meetings are vastly more complex than meeting in-person or virtually. This new model will bring with it a dramatic change in how we meet - a hybrid mix of in-person attendees and remote meeting participants seems an inevitable component of our “new normal.” A recent McKinsey survey suggests that 90% of organizations will adopt some combination of remote and on-site work as they emerge from Covid restrictions.
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