HBR Guide to Managing Flexible Work (HBR Guide Series)

CHAPTER 16

What It Takes to Run a Great Hybrid Meeting

by Bob Frisch and Cary Greene

New flexible work models are bringing dramatic changes in how we meet—a hybrid mix of in-person attendees and remote meeting participants. As Satya Nadella, Micro soft’s CEO put it, “We want to ensure those joining remotely are always first-class participants.”

Hybrid meetings are vastly more complex than meeting in person or virtually. 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.

Drawing 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: ...