

The larger the meeting (number of guests), the further the need to do a dress rehearsal.No one is trying to see all your chaos or bizarre desktop images.Always plan to share your screen … even if you don’t expect to share your screen. Why overload the system or your co-workers, am I right?Ģ. If so, draft that email and cancel that Zoom meeting skip points 2 through 10 of this post. In the drafting of said meeting agenda or rationale for the gathering, you might find that this meeting could be an email. Disseminate the plan or reason for the session 48–72 hours in advance. Update: we don’t.Īfter witnessing and contributing to a range of virtual meeting faux pas, here are 10 things I learned about hosting virtual meetings while under the COVID-19 social lockdown: 1. Still, we’re all expected to look like we do this virtual meeting thing all the time. We’re just masking the panic and pain through pajamas, honey-tea tonics, and frenzied hand washing. Week 1 of teleworking felt like 2019 on a spiked hamster wheel. I have never been on so many Zoom meetings and FaceTime calls in my elder-millennial life.
