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Do you find it challenging to schedule and attend several meetings while working from home?
Meetings are crucial for decision-making, information sharing, teamwork, and collaboration inside a company, and their significance has grown as a result of the rising popularity of remote work. You could encounter several challenges when planning, scheduling and conducting a meeting.
Do you face any of them?
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Daniel Engels
Frankly, I do.
I'm fine with one or two 30-minutes meetings. But when the whole day is online conferences, it's challenging to keep the focus.
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The biggest challenge is when meetings are back to back, I try to prioritize customer/user meetings as the feedback and insight we may gain is crucial to our business. As for internal calls, they are equally important, but its important to set an agenda or at least give an idea of what is to be discussed, if it is something that you may potentially have no input on, ask for the meeting to be recorded and sent to you later for reviewing.
If you're the meeting host, you can record using a # of platforms, truth is that is why our platform Visla was born, you can record a meeting and only send out the parts of it that's pertinent to the recipient so they don't have to sit through an entire meeting.
Also of note is usually at the end of a meeting there are action items or notes that need to be addressed post-meeting, and its hard to do when you are back to back.
So for me rule of thumb is, I do decline meetings when appropriate, I do my best not to schedule back-to-back meetings, prioritize external/customer meetings for feedback purpose, scale back on internal meetings when possible. If you're the host, be respectful look at the necessary calendars for availability and try to be mindful of the back-to-back of some attendees, it does drain you if you're not careful.
I'd say so. When working in an office, there was at least some movement going from meeting to meeting room, interacting with folks on the way, stopping to get some water/coffee. Now that I'm WFH, I sit at my desk and tend not to move until the EOD. I know it's not good for so many reasons but I completely lose track of time.
It definitely is a challenge, but at our workplace. We try to run everything as asynchronous as possible. So scheduling becomes a lot easier.