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Hello. Thank you for joining me.
My name is Pilar Orti,
and I'm the Director of
Virtual not Distant,
where I help managers
and their teams
embrace online
collaboration practices.
I'm also the host of
the 21st Century
Work Life Podcast,
where we talk about
online collaboration
and leading remote teams.
I'm the author of the book
"Online Meetings that Matter".
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I have been helping managers
and their remote teams
embrace online
collaboration since 2016.
I have to tell you
that back then,
online meetings were
very different.
Even in fully remote teams,
online meetings didn't
take up much time.
Some of them were
better than others,
and the technology then
made some of them painful,
but there weren't
that many of them.
However, as technology
has advanced
and the online experience
has become better,
and most people now know
how to have a video
meeting online,
they have become very popular.
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In this talk, we're
going to look at
Why do remote teams
have meetings?
What to consider when we're
thinking about
calling a meeting?
The role of the team leader,
manager, or meeting host
in making meetings work.
What needs to happen
before a meeting?
What we should consider
during a meeting
and what should happen
after a meeting?
I'm going to be looking
at meetings in general,
even though there are many
different types of meetings.
I know some sectors and
methodologies have specific
kinds of meetings too.
Hopefully, there will be
a range of practices here
that you can incorporate
into any kind of meeting.
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Meetings should not be
the only form of communication
in remote teams,
but even if we also adopt
asynchronous communication,
which doesn't happen
in real-time,
meetings will play an important
part in collaborations.
Meetings allow us to have
thorough discussions, to
check in on the spot if
we're understanding
each other, and they
allow us to get the full
body of somebody's message.
At a human level,
I've noticed that
many things happen in
meetings that help us feel
connected to each other.
We connect through the work
by sharing our
tasks and our work.
We can share our progress.
We can share what
we've been learning.
Sometimes, we share
our mistakes,
our discoveries, our
challenges, our creativity.
If you start to
listen carefully,
you can hear people
sharing their values,
their personal context, and
even their personal histories.
We can share part
of our personality
and we might even be
sharing a sense of humor.
You can see that meetings are
an important part
of the workplace,
and in some teams, they are
more important than others.
Meetings will play a
different function in
teamwork depending on
the nature of each team.
