Have you heard a great speaker in a virtual meeting who sounded tiny or distant? Have you logged in, excited for a meeting, but struggled to hear the presenter even though you turned up your audio? Have you ever logged off of a webinar because […]
Have you ever had a virtual meeting attendee interrupted by a dog barking, a child walking in the room, a lawnmower, or the neighbor’s supercharged car? It is disturbing for your attendees or clients and it can also knock you off your planned presentation. Take […]
PowerPoint Karaoke—Improving Improvisation Goals: Learn how to improve your improvisation by presenting a PowerPoint slidedeck without ever seeing it. Have you ever had something not go as planned during your meeting? Do you wish you could handle that with ease? Then, practice your improvisation skills […]
Goals: Get attendees to realize that giving more information is better than just receiving for solving problems and collaborating. Five teammates work together to put five triangles together with a fixed set of rules. This is a classic team-building event called Broken Squares that is […]
Grid Unlock—How to Work Together to Solve Problems Goals: Get attendees to find their own way to work together and solve problems. Grid Unlock is a classic “Magic Squares” challenge updated for a virtual meeting. In a shared spreadsheet, attendees enter nine numbers until you […]
I’m John Chen, the CEO of Geoteaming, your expert on team building. On February 3rd, 2020, the GHCA or the Georgia Healthcare Association participated in a Geoteaming program. This program focused on networking and team building. After reviewing gigabytes of data, we learned that there […]
The Engaging Virtual Meetings facebook group is THE community of professionals who are passionate about making virtual meetings engaging. With members from around the world and from multiple professions, you can ask a question and get multiple answers quickly. In addition, the best practices from […]
Matching and mirroring operates on the principle that people like people who are like themselves. These are easy openers that only use video and can take 1–3 minutes. You can use just one or combine 2 to 10 of these openers. You can sequence the […]
Share iPhone/iPad You can share your iPhone or iPad screen. If you are showing an app, you can show exactly how it looks and works to your participants, which can help if your app only works on the iPhone or iPad. This can help in […]
One of the easiest ways to learn how to use Annotation is to play Pictionary. The organizer private chats a word to the drawer. The drawer proceeds to draw something to get the other participants to guess the drawn word in 60 seconds or less […]
One of the hidden keys to an engaging virtual meeting is security. Security includes the challenges of securing your meeting data, especially if it is confidential or sensitive to the phenomenon of Zoombombing, which is the unwanted intrusion into a videoconference call by an individual […]
One of the hidden keys to an engaging virtual meeting is security. Security includes the challenges of securing your meeting data, especially if it is confidential or sensitive to the phenomenon of Zoombombing, which is the unwanted intrusion into a videoconference call by an individual […]
This is a high-energy matching and mirroring opener. You or someone you choose can lead the first dance and every other attendee must follow. You can create a rule that when the song changes, you change to another leader. Make sure all the attendees know […]
The Participation Map When your meeting grows to more than 15 attendees or if you have amore complex meeting, such as a learning meeting, consider using a participation map. A participation map can help you recognize common patterns of problem meetings, such as one or […]
One of the most common problems on virtual meetings is when an attendee starts talking and they forget they are on mute. Video signs is a fast and easy way to communicate that can be used when other attendees are talking. Video signs are printed […]
THANK YOU for completing our form. As a gift, here are video signs you can use during your meetings. Click to download your PDF video signs. Click to download your video signs in an editable Word document. Get creative and make your own! If you […]
Let’s solve your virtual meeting problems. Are you working from home? Are you suffering from Zoom fatigue? Do you want the most engaging virtual meetings? Hi, I’m John Chen, author of Engaging Virtual Meetings. I’ve been meeting virtually for over 35 years and now I’m […]