INTRODUCTION

Everyone is on mute.

Your heart is pounding; you are not usually this nervous in meetings.

What were you saying?

The energy on the call feels like it is slipping away.

Very few people speak.

You hoped this meeting would be more engaging than the last one.

It isn’t.

If the above scene feels at all familiar, we can relate. When remote meetings go badly, they go really badly. Few things feel as lonely and intimidating as speaking to a screen, with unreadable faces staring back in silence. We wrote this book to help you improve the quality of your remote meetings. With a little awareness, some planning, and some practice, you can make your remote meetings effective, engaging, and a powerful mechanism for collaboration within your ...

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