Running Great Meetings and Workshops For Dummies

Chapter 12

Running Remote or Virtual Meetings and Workshops

In This Chapter

Getting ready for your remote or virtual meetings

Managing a hybrid meeting

Evaluating the tools and tech at your disposal

Thinking about the challenges of remote and virtual workshops

There’s one thing you can be sure of. You’re going to be attending or running more remote meetings rather than fewer of them over the next five years. That means meetings when you can’t necessarily see other participants because you are on a call together or using a platform to collaborate. And even if you can see your fellow participants, you’re looking at a screen, so you’ve got much less information to guide you.

Online or blended workshops are exactly the same. Lots of workshops are moving to online, on-demand delivery because it’s so much more cost-effective. When budgets are tight, remote and virtual get-togethers are a no-brainer.

And when remote meetings are run well, they are a super-effective way of pushing plans and projects forward. Unfortunately, remote meetings take more preparation than face-to-face ones because ...