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I feel like 60% of the points in this article relative to the problems with meetings in general that remote meetings make worse are entirely solved with judicio
by ToucanLoucan 2y ago
I feel like 60% of the points in this article relative to the problems with meetings in general that remote meetings make worse are entirely solved with judicious use of the "raise hand" feature that Teams has, and while I've never used any other software for meetings, I would be utterly gobsmacked if Zoom and the others didn't have a similar feature.
The rest of this is a lot of complaints about meetings in general that are kind of, maybe made worse with someone's bad A/V setup, but I'm always trying to avoid meetings for all of those reasons anyway.
Maybe some of people's problems with meetings have less to do with the meetings and more to do with the apparently extremely adversarial relationships they have with coworkers. I don't find many of these issues in my workplace at all, and I think unavoidably a big reason for that is we have a very solid company culture that encourages mutual respect and pro-solution attitudes. I think that's a better answer by far than anything to do with your meetings.
- patrick451 2y agoThe raise hand feature actually makes these problems worse. There are usually a few more senior and loquacious folks who at some point start to ignore the raised hand queue. They will freely chime in like it's a normal conversation. Once that happens, the raised hand queue is nearly forgotten. This problem is even worse in a mixed meeting when the loquacious folks are all present in the meeting room and the more timid rule-following folks are all remote.
- LordGrey 2y agoI've been in a couple of meetings like that. Fortunately, the person running the meeting shut down the loquacious people and redirected to the people who followed the rules. That of course was a public reward, so everyone else followed the rules, too. It worked well.
- jimberlage 2y agoThis is one of the thing you pay engineering managers for - someone should jump in and ask the senior people to pause while we go to others’ points.