This document discusses improving remote and hybrid meetings. It suggests starting with clear purpose, keeping attendees engaged, allowing for divergent thinking, and producing shareable results. Video calls are better than hybrid meetings, and using breakout rooms can help engagement. Giving full attention to others is important. Asking questions like "who has something different" can facilitate divergent thinking. The document promotes workshops from the authors on improving remote collaboration.

1. How To Fix Remote Work’s Most
Troublesome Bug: Ghastly Online Meetings
Judy Rees and Steve McCann, May 2019

2. What’s one regular remote meeting you
attend that you’d like to be different?
For you, what’s the worst thing about that?

3. Our Intention
To help you discover some ways you can
make your remote/hybrid meetings better
- perhaps in some ways even better than
in-the-room ones!

4. So That…
Together we improve the quality of remote
and hybrid meetings and reap the “remote
dividend” - with its personal, business and
environmental benefits

5. Start With An Effective Meeting
• Clear purpose
• Keep attendees engaged
• Make safe space for divergent thinking
• Produce real, shareable results
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/how-to-run-effective-meetings

6. So, how can we do that remotely?

7. Start With An Effective Meeting
• Clear purpose
• Keep attendees engaged
• Make safe space for divergent thinking
• Produce real, shareable results
https://www.atlassian.com/blog/teamwork/how-to-run-effective-meetings

8. “You cannot have a meeting of minds when
most of the minds are not in the meeting”
Elise Keith

9. Our focus will be on the human stuff

10. Tech Does Matter
• “One remote, all remote” is currently
better than hybrid
• Video makes a huge difference
• Use breakout rooms - a lot!

12. What can you do to keep other people
engaged?

13. Listening Activity
Listen
Be distracted
Listen

14. Listening Activity
Listen
Be distracted
Listen

15. Listening Activity
Listen
Be distracted
Listen

16. What did you notice?

17. “The quality of your attention can determine
the quality of another person’s thought”
Nancy Kline

18. Active Attention Activity
Practice giving high-quality, active attention

19. Starter Question
• When you are fully engaged in a
remote/hybrid meeting, you are like…
what?

20. Lazy Jedi Questions (Clean Language)
• What kind of X?
• Is there anything else about X?
• Aim to use only these questions and no other words.
“X” stands for one of their words.

21. Two Minutes Each. Keep Going!
• When you are fully engaged in a
remote/hybrid meeting, you are like…
what?
• What kind of X?
• Is there anything else about X?

22. What did you notice?

23. Going Deeper
• Clear purpose
• Keep attendees engaged
• Make safe space for divergent thinking
• Produce real, shareable results

24. Ask us about Collaboration Dynamics and
Collaborative Influence
Free online taster sessions available

25. Questions For Divergent Thinking
• Who’s got something different?
• Who’s not like that?
• Who’s got something different… or
similar?

26. Think of a flower…

27. Switcheroo
• And when <problem or obstacle, in their
words>, what would you like to happen?

28. Great Remote Facilitation: Impossible?
• Energy
• Interaction
• Movement/Space
• Observation

29. BETTER than in-the-room?
• All the right
people
• Timely
• Intimate
• Quick
• Shared screens,
documents,
boards, tools etc

30. Next Steps
• Ask us to lead an online session where
you work
• steve@reesmccann.com
• Recorded course: bit.ly/HorridHybrids
• London 17 May: bit.ly/RemoteRocks
• code AM19 for 50% off
• LinkLetter: judyrees.co.uk

31. What specific actions will you take as a result
of this workshop?
Speak to someone near you