We’re getting a lot of mileage around here with this blog post! Read what our CMO Jackie Yeaney has to say about some popular ‘meeting personalities’.
Millions of us sit on conference calls and web meetings each day. Let us know if you recognize yourself, or your boss.
[Full disclosure: I am a combo socializer/multi-tasker/time-keeper/maestro!]
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My daughter and I regularly play the Favorites Game – What is your favorite color? What is your favorite food? What is your favorite animal? Using this simple kid’s game, we are able to share and connect easily, getting to know each other just a little better. I thought it would be interesting to apply this concept to the blog as a good way for us to get acquainted.
This post is for all who have sat on boring conference calls or – worse yet – hosted painful calls where no one is engaged. As someone who participates in about 10 audio or web conferences a week, I have a few go-to tricks that I like to use to when hosting a meeting to ensure that attendees are listening. After all, when you are seated in a face-to-face meeting chances are you are paying attention. When you are at your desk participating in a call or web conference, chances are you are multi-tasking.
If you have ever been on a conference call, you know exactly what I’m talking about—those awkward pauses that make conference calls a sometimes dreaded form of communication. Here are a few such instances and how you can avoid them:
The early caller
Like the punctual professional you are, you get on the call a few minutes before the assigned time, only to find that it is only you and Tim in Tampa, who you know absolutely nothing about. Rather than force awkward conversation as if this were three-minute dating, why not start discussing the topic of your call? You might learn something and get your creative juices running just in time for the discussion.
