Effective Online Meetings

1. Don't dumb down, smarten up

In times of crisis, organizations need to be smarter and more agile, not less. It must be “all hands on deck”, to help understand the situation, respond appropriately and timely, to find and seize those opportunities that lie hidden in every crisis. Response to a crisis requires coordination, not disintegration.

The issue? Meetings. Meetings are the place and the occasion where organizations 'think'. The 'right' people meet to make sense of the situation. To find and develop solutions. To agree the way forward and coordinate action.

The current crisis disrupts the capacity of organizations to ‘think’ and coordinate. Ordering people to work from the home – however necessary – is problematic because web conferences and team chatting tools haven’t suddenly become good enough to replace ‘real’ collaborative meetings. They choke off what is most needed: dynamic interaction between those who know. Insight into what’s going on and what it means in practice. Ideas that solve problems and mitigate risks.

Setting joint priorities and finding consensus on how to move forward on what and when.

Such sense and decision-making capability is required at all levels of the organization.

MeetingSphere has the solution.