Run Better Meetings
Hybrid, virtual, or in person – set meeting best practices that support your desired meeting norms.
Your newly hybrid workplace will include virtual, hybrid, and physical meetings, presenting several challenges:
- The experience for onsite and remote attendees is not equal.
- Employees are experiencing meeting and video fatigue.
- Meeting rooms are not optimized for hybrid meetings.
- The fact is that many people have not successfully run hybrid meetings before.
Our Advice
Critical Insight
- Successful hybrid workplace plans must include planning around hybrid meetings. Seamless hybrid meetings are the result of thoughtful planning and documented best practices.
Impact and Result
- Identify your current state and the root cause of unsatisfactory meetings.
- Review and identify meetings best practices around meeting roles, delivery models, and training.
- Improve the technology that supports meetings.
- Use Info-Tech’s quick checklists and decision flowchart to accelerate meeting planning and cover your bases.
Workshop: Run Better Meetings
Workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.
Module 1: Identify Current State of Meetings
The Purpose
- Understand the current state of meetings in your organization.
Key Benefits Achieved
- What you need to keep doing and what you need to change
Activities
Outputs
Brainstorm meeting types.
- Documented challenges with meetings
Document meeting norms.
- Meeting norms
Document and categorize meeting challenges.
- Desired changes to meeting norms
Module 2: Review and Identify Best Practices
The Purpose
- Review and implement meeting best practices.
Key Benefits Achieved
- Defined meeting best practices for your organization
Activities
Outputs
Document meeting roles and expectations.
- Meeting roles and expectations
Review common meeting challenges and identify best practices.
- List of meeting best practices
Document when to use a hybrid meeting, virtual meeting, or an in-person meeting.
- Guidelines to help workers choose between a hybrid, virtual, or in-person meeting
Develop a training program.
- Training plan for meetings
Module 3: Improve Meeting Technology
The Purpose
- Identify opportunities to improve meeting technology.
Key Benefits Achieved
- A strategy for improving the underlying technologies and meeting spaces
Activities
Outputs
Empower virtual meeting attendees.
Optimize spaces for hybrid meetings.
- Desired improvements to meeting rooms and meeting technology
Build a team of meeting champions.
- Charter for the team of meeting champions
Iterate to build and improve meeting technology.
Guide users toward each technology.
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A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.
Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.
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Guided Implementation 1: Identify the current state of meetings at your organization
- Call 1: Scope requirements, objectives, and your specific challenges.
- Call 2: Identify meeting norms to change.
Guided Implementation 2: Publish best practices for how meetings should run
- Call 1: Document meeting roles and expectations.
- Call 2: Review common meeting challenges and document best practices.
Guided Implementation 3: Improve meeting technology
- Call 1: Identify opportunities to improve virtual, in-person, and hybrid meetings.
- Call 2: Develop a team of meetings champions.
- Call 3: Build documentation to help users choose the right communication tool.
Contributors
- Danny Torchia, VP Technology Platforms & Operations, Walmart Canada
- Rene Washburn, IT Director, Collaboration Services, Zebra Technologies
- Brad Wells, IT Solutions Architect, London Police Service
- Six anonymous contributors
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