Tips to Create Meaningful, Engaging and Effective Meetings with Zoom
Audio
Call in with your phone and use your earbuds:
Log into Zoom with your computer or tablet. In the bottom left corner find the microphone and ^. Select connect with phone audio. A pop up will provide you a phone number, room number, and user id. Use your earbuds, wired, or wireless. You will get a clear connection, preventing unwanted feedback. If your internet goes down you will maintain a connection with the room.
Use an alternative to “Share Screen”
Share screen options are quick and easy ways to share quick bits of information. If you have more information or would like your participants to interact provide your participants to link to a second document like a google doc or online tool like Miro.
Take a Break
Participating in Zoom meetings or any video conference system is hard on the eyes and brain. There are a ton of moving parts and a ton of distractions. Every half hour or hour. Ask your participants to close their eyes and breathe.
Involve Your Attendees in the Meeting
Creating meaningful, effective, and engaging meetings starts with inviting your attendees to participate. There are a variety of ways to engages you, attendees. Eva Jo Meyer ower of Spark Decks and Kim Howe owner of Co-Creative Labs created a free Virtual Bootcamp course to share their methods of online meeting facilitation. Kim and Eva invited me and a cohort of online facilitators to facilitate a 2.5 hour face-paced interactive online Virtual Bootcamp when online registrations exploded.
We are offering Virtual Bootcamp at no cost to help people we are moving their meetings online during these unprecedented times.
In Virtual Bootcamp hope to answer questions like:
- “How do I run a collaborative process like a consensus workshop, action planning, or world café?”
- “How do I ensure fully inclusive participation… engage quiet folks and keep people from talking over each other, ‘checking out’ or multitasking?”
- “How do I foster a connected, relational, and high-energy atmosphere online?”
- “How do I do all this with a group who’s not very tech-savvy? (And what if I’M not very tech-savvy?)”
- “Which tools and software could support me in doing all this?”
Sessions focus on:
- How to translate in-person processes and facilitation skills to online spaces
- Simple tools to support a range of activities
- Best practices, tips, and resources for online engagement
If you want to learn how to create meaningful, engaging, and effective meetings register for the free interactive 2.5 hour live and course: “Virtual Bootcamp.”
Sign up to the Vision Fusion Newsletter to receive a calendar and registration link for Virtual Bootcamp dates and times. This course is 100% free led by a team of professional virtual facilitators.
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