TEAMS365 #2318 – Meeting Etiquette for Both In-Person & Virtual Meetings

Poor meeting etiquette may have gotten magnified in the remote space in the last few months of Stay in Place and Quarantine. I recently attended a conference for remote workers and one large tech firm had surveyed several thousand employees, asking “What is the biggest challenge right now”?

The response – Meetings!

As I have shared for years – things get “amplified” or “magnified” in the remote space. This includes the good, the bad, and the disengaged.

Whether your meetings are back to face-to-face (with distance) or are virtual, what are the practices we want to focus on?

Here are six things you’ll want to keep in mind around meeting etiquette:

1. Start and end on time – It’s likely that people are moving from meeting to meeting over the course of the day – so start on time and be very clear with agreements around.
2. Have a clear agenda and success measures of what you want to leave the meeting with.
3. Be on time. Note that some “virtual meeting rooms” will lock after a certain amount of time.
4. Be present and be prepared. Take a few minutes the night before to review what meetings you have upcoming and ensure that you have done all the pre-work needed before you get on the line.
5. Pause regularly to note key agreements, main points and action steps. Leave time (60 seconds, 90 seconds) for people to write things down and schedule it in.
6. Wrap up the meeting on time, or even a few minutes early so people can get to their next meeting.

And as a bonus – Track accountabilities and make it memorable!!

Enjoy your next meeting!
​Jennifer

Jennifer Britton
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