How to design and pull off effective remote meetings.
My team, PwC’s The Difference, designs and facilitates large-group collaborative sessions aimed at solving complex problems. We scope the work before we begin with a sponsor team and then invite the right people to engage around a challenge and move forward, together, with speed and alignment. These sessions are conducted exclusively in person and are designed to be highly experiential. When the pandemic made holding such events impossible, we feared that our whole method of working would instantly be rendered obsolete. But we’ve discovered that many elements of the in-person work we were doing translate well to virtual collaboration — and are, in fact, vital to success in this new arena. In the last couple of months, we’ve tested, iterated, and delivered our work remotely in ways that were still effective and engaging. There are some important challenges to keep in mind and takeaways we learned along the way for how to add depth, texture, and power to two-dimensional meetings.
All designers of good meetings have to master the basics: the right objectives, agenda, facilitation approach, participants, materials, and a space that’s fit for purpose. In addition to getting the basics right, planners of virtual meetings must overcome additional constraints to creating optimal outcomes in three key parameters: attention, tools, and space.
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