How to make a success of hybrid meetings

You may have 4 or 5 people at home "dialing in" through MS Teams or Zoom with a further 5 or 6 people in a meeting room at HQ. What are the pitfalls? And how do you make this work?

We all know what the formula is for a good Zoom meeting but what happens when some colleagues start to return to the office?

How do you make a meeting work when you have office and remote workers on the same call? Do the same rules apply? Do you need a completely different way of running the meeting?

In this blog I explore this new phenomenon in a little more depth with a few tips on how to navigate some of the problems that occur. Master this and returning to something resembling a more normal office working environment can be in sight for your business. Get it wrong and those who do venture into the office can wonder why they bothered. And those stuck at home could feel left out.

So first, picture the scene. Your company has approved a hybrid working arrangement where employees can work from home for some days of the week and in the office for the rest.

Hybrid working results in hybrid meetings.

So here are my top tips for having great merging face to face and online meetings.

1. Don't fo…