Virtual meetings are here to stay.

The technology for holding virtual meetings has been around for a long time.

If you compare the last 18 months to the previous decade, the increase is phenomenal.

The pandemic triggered an instant shift to remote working.

Overnight, businesses all over the world were compelled to switch to something many had been resisting for years; working from home.

Here are the 5 biggest mistakes when running virtual meetings and what you can do to avoid them.

Which one of these happened in your last Zoom/Meet/Teams meeting? 

1. The speaker asked a question, and the echo of crickets was deafening.
2. You kept yourself muted on audio and video while multitasking because everyone else is doing it. 
3. The meeting ended and you’re not sure why you wasted 58 minutes of your life. 
4. All of the above.
5. None of the above. The speaker’s Wi-Fi went down, and the meeting promptly ended.

There’s not much you can do for the person who ran the meeting, but you can make sure that never happens to you. And, let’s be honest, at least one of those things has happened to all of us over the past 20 months. 

Here are the 5 biggest mistakes when running virtual meetings and what you can do to avoid them.