As an online team we at FLA already spend quite a bit of time working in our home offices, using email, sms and phone channels to communicate with each other. But twice every week we meet at the office for work get-togethers, 'work-togethers' and meetings. Last week we made the decision to move our full business operation online: time to isolate ourselves... because we can! Well, we thought we could! Our first meetings last week were fairly painful events: we tried Skype, Zoom and Whatsapp. For the first meeting we settled on Skype because in that group of people that was the easiest choice. We experienced delays to get everyone connected, then we had some sound problems because some of us had their mic too close to speakers, and then we quickly had to learn techniques to avoid speaking across each other,... a few hiccups and lots of extra time!
Yesterday's Sales meeting was much smoother (practice!) This meeting ran on Whatsapp through a group video chat. This is what our meeting looked like: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6649187379703762944/ , very FACE-TO-FACES !
How are you coping with online meetings? What is your favourite virtual meeting app/platform? Post it here!