Walk the walk and let your team talk the talk.
Record the audio – this way those brilliant, on-the-fly ideas won’t get lost in the wind.This way, your walking meeting can focus on conversation, not documentation. Set an agenda or share any resources ahead of time if needed.Put your headphones and start strolling.Dial into a Zoom meeting link or conference call.Fun tip: Try to share your walking paths/challenge each other to see how far you walk, or start a fitness group using an app like Strava.Decide on the length of the meeting and length of the walk.And helps you encourage healthy team exercise. Plus walking gets your team outside, to lap up some vitamin D. Walking can boost creativity by up to 60%, according to research by Stanford University. Walk and talk – switch the screen for the footpath.ĭid you know Steve Jobs preferred to hold most of his brainstorming meetings whilst walking? If you have meetings that are creative in nature, consider switching webcams for footpaths. Plus, did you know research shows we are actually MORE empathetic when listening to audio-only communication? Because we start to really hear the nuances and subtleties in tone. This creates a forced break in screen time usage during your meeting. When doing so, it’s important to remind everyone to step away from their screens as they dial-in. You can even use Zoom as a platform to do so, and encourage meeting guests to dial in on their phones. An easy alternative is to replace the screen with audio-only dial-ins, or use a Slack huddle. Outside of the work you already do whilst attached to your screen, zoom meetings add extended periods of time where you’re forced to strain your eyes on your screen.
You can feel this intuitively at the end of the day, you have a screen headache (Computer Vision Syndrome). The human eye was not designed to spend that much time concentrating on your pixelated co-workers. Part of the energy sap that comes with day-long video conferencing is the time spent staring at a screen. Dial-in with audio-only (aka a phone call) 7 effective ways of meeting remotely without the Zoom-drainġ. And while we know that video conferencing drains your energy and leads to “Zoom fatigue“, teams tend to revert to video calls as the default communication method.
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