WHAT MOVES YOUR TEAM
Weekly calls, web conferences, ad-hoc virtual meetings, status-calls. They all have one thing in common: they are all online meetings. Covid-19 accelerates the trend to work more or even exclusively in the home office.
No matter whether for coordination or meetings of a purely informative nature, they usually do not add any value compared to pure presentation, are boring and non-interactive. We therefore often consider web conferences to be a compulsory event and a waste of time.
As a result, there are distractions, e-mails are written, people chat, they do not listen.
Valuable resources are therefore lost.
Online meetings – Interesting facts
- Many employees in small and medium-sized companies complain that the time they spend in meetings is getting longer and longer every year. The time to focus on core tasks, in contrast, is reduced.
- Many employees want clear goals for meetings and also want meetings to end when these goals are achieved.
- At the same time, many employees state that they regularly do not know exactly what meetings are about and what is to be achieved. This makes it difficult to prepare for them.
- In several cases, web meetings are also scheduled for times outside the official office hours and this is justified with the time constraints during core working hours.
Adverse accumulation effect for your company
If we assume a meeting with only 20 min of unproductive time per participating employee due to
- interfering influences from outside
- wandering off the point
- waiting for late arrival
- small talk
- sorting technical difficulties.
RESULT:
A meeting with 5 people will result in 1:40h unproductive time.
With 3 meetings per day, the group loses almost 4:20 hours which could be better used for working on their core business processes.
Online meetings and conferences must be shorter and more focused and offer real added value to active participants and listeners.
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