Engaging Virtual Meetings

1The ENGAGE Method for Leading Great Meetings

If you want engaging virtual meetings, then learn the ENGAGE method. The method has been refined over the past 35 years and has a remedy for the most common virtual meeting problems. ENGAGE stands for:

• Engage and interact with every attendee.
• Never lead a meeting alone.
• Good looks.
• Air traffic control.
• Get productive with virtual tools.
• End your meeting on a high note.

A Brief Overview of the ENGAGE Method

Engage and interact with every attendee. If you want engagement, engage! If you want your next virtual meeting to be engaging, then try different ways to engage your attendees. Greet all of your attendees as they arrive. Have every attendee check in. Ask your attendees to chat. Keep track and check in with the attendees who haven't said anything and give them the opportunity to pass if they don't want to contribute.

Go to bit.ly/evmengage to see a video of a professional host giving a demonstration of engaging and interacting with every attendee.

Never lead a meeting alone. If you want engagement, assign an attendee or someone you invite to a meeting a role in the meeting (after you have trained them). Roles include chat engagement, muting and unmuting, renaming, and security. Any or all of these roles can be delegated. They must be engaged to do their job and it allows you, the host, to focus on connecting with your attendees.

Go to bit.ly/evmnever to see a video of a professional host working with a producer as an example ...