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JANUARY 4, 2021
Video Conferencing tools have become one of the most critical technologies of late, especially because of a virus strain that has brought the whole world to its knees. There is no denying the fact that Zoom is the most popular video conferencing tool in the market right now. MORE
OCTOBER 3, 2018
The core strategy team arrives in the meeting room. The IT guys are busy testing the projector and making sure the video conferencing connections are seamless. The boss is already anxious and stressed out—for this is a crucial meeting that will define the future of his unit. Needless to say, this was a totally ineffective, mismanaged and unproductive meeting—and everyone knows it. Let’s start with the lack of a structured design for the meeting. 9:57 a.m. MORE
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
I’ve been thinking about meetings. Now that I am back in a corporate role, where my day is mostly filled with meetings, the importance of setting boundaries and understanding how to handle delicate situations is even more critical. Today, we take on the topic of how to run a strategic vs. tactical meeting. I’d challenge you to think of the last few weeks of meetings you attended, and I’d wager that most are tactical. MORE
JULY 7, 2020
If it’s not Zoom meetings or virtual happy hours with colleagues, it’s catching up on Skype or FaceTime with friends and family. While it’s true that introverts are more comfortable with online interactions, the excessive videos calls weren’t exactly what most of us were expecting. MORE
JUNE 26, 2019
Despite awesome tools like as Zoom, Skype or Hangouts, remote teams still struggle on deciding when to meet and what subjects to cover and companies bemoan the loss of engagement opportunities for their employees. Using a well-thought-out system of remote meetings, you can help keep operations running smoothly, ensure every team member is on the same page, and keep your remote workforce feeling they a part of the big corporate family. 1) Meet-and-greet Sessions. MORE
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
This post, colleague’s wife and mommy group attended our work talk, references from a romantic partner, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. My colleague’s wife and her mommy group attended our work presentation. I wish the timing were different.”. MORE
MAY 12, 2015
(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is an excerpt from my book, “ Essential Meeting Blueprints for Managers.” There an important step to the training process – answering the question “Does it need to be a meeting?” Given the number of meetings out there, it’s amazing to me how many people don’t ask this question. There are two key elements to consider when trying to decide if the training you’re planning should be conducted during a meeting: message and medium. MORE
DECEMBER 19, 2020
With face-to-face meetings out of the question, the next best thing recruiters can settle for is a video interview. . It’s not like video interviews were never a part of the recruitment process before the pandemic. The 2 Types of Video Interviews. One-Way Video Interviews. MORE
OCTOBER 3, 2018
The core strategy team arrives in the meeting room. The IT guys are busy testing the projector and making sure the video conferencing connections are seamless. The boss is already anxious and stressed out—for this is a crucial meeting that will define the future of his unit. Needless to say, this was a totally ineffective, mismanaged and unproductive meeting—and everyone knows it. Let’s start with the lack of a structured design for the meeting. 9:57 a.m. MORE
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
At the same time, a salesperson needs to be perseverant, determined, and ambitious enough to deal with challenging moments that might arise in their job. People who work in sales have very tight schedules as a result of meetings and calls. Onboarding Videos. Videos for Training. MORE
DECEMBER 8, 2019
In our post on the ‘Future of Interviewing is Here – Mobile Video Interviews’ we outlined how mobile video interviews allow you to increase your exposure to new candidates by as much as 36%. Trying to find a time that suits everyone can become a nightmarish puzzle of epic proportions. MORE
JANUARY 15, 2021
At the end of last year, I created a fun survey to invite people to share their biggest frustrations with virtual meetings at work. In all, there were over 600 votes cast to help us narrow down the worst practices of virtual meetings. 5 Worst Practices for Virtual Meetings. MORE
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
In case you missed it, Google has decided to stop holding a weekly "all-hands" meeting they call TGIF in response to leaks and the meetings being dominated by issues considered non-core to the business (my words, not theirs). Here's my version of his email to announce the weekly "all hands" meetings are gone. Along the way and before this, we realized that our infamous "20% time" that allowed you to work on your own projects wasn't actually contributing to business results. MORE
JULY 26, 2018
Spark Hire has been attending SHRM for many years and this year, SHRM was conveniently hosted in downtown Chicago. I was sent to the conference to meet with some of our customers. Video interviewing has become so popular at CASIS, Melody’s hiring managers request it be part of the process when they have vacant positions. Learn from Melody herself about why she loves Spark Hire in her video testimonial or read the transcript below! It’s an absolute time-saver for me. MORE
JUNE 17, 2020
As annual meeting season approaches, it is time again to consider whether businesses will soon shift to a fully-virtual format. Online-only and hybrid meetings have been occurring for years; however, 2020 is the first year that companies may be forced to cancel their in-person events altogether. Over the last few weeks, concerns over the global spread of coronavirus have prompted some large companies to switch their annual meetings to virtual-only formats. MORE
MAY 8, 2015
A friend recently shared a funny video about conference calls and what they would look like if they were in person. It’s made the social media rounds, but was still good for a laugh one more time. It got me thinking about meetings… specificaly conference calls, since I work from home. I pulled up my calendar and just looking at 2015, it appears I spend anywhere between 10- 50% of my week sitting in some type of meeting. ” All the time! MORE
JULY 5, 2021
Not only could I engage from afar, but I could enchant , delight , inspire , and provoke real change , all the while spending quality time with my pregnant wife and subsequently my firstborn son. One 2020 study reported that 99% of people admit to multitasking during video meetings. MORE
MARCH 29, 2021
Working from the comfort of your home was welcomed by many during corona times , but then the difficulties of working in a remote environment set in. Constant video conferencing, communication gaps, collaboration hitches, and loneliness seem to have hit the working population hard. . MORE
APRIL 28, 2020
Consider the professional story you communicate when you either are a spectator or an active virtual participant during meetings. How you show up, during virtual meetings, sets up sensory expectations about your level of post-meeting engagement and performance. MORE
APRIL 24, 2020
But even with technology to keep us connected and productive , collaborating with teammates over instant messenger and keeping meetings focused over video conferences can be challenging. Otherwise, I ask to be briefed on the meeting output in an email afterwards.”. MORE
JULY 21, 2020
Communication is vital during times of crises. Or, you simply do not have the time to go through pages and pages of protocol because immediate action is necessary? Maybe team members are not able to attend a crisis meeting. Do this by means of video tutorials. MORE
MAY 1, 2020
If you and your company shifted to remote work in the last few weeks, you’ve probably felt the urge to add meetings to your schedule to make up for the lack of unplanned face-to-face interactions that happen in the office. Avoid meetings about simple topics. MORE
AUGUST 11, 2020
Long before COVID-19 entered the scene, requiring a significant portion of work and work-related communication to go virtual, meetings were an all-too-frequent feature of the business landscape. What’s also grown is the level of frustration and exhaustion associated with meetings. MORE
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
If you’re feeling the stress of bouncing from back-to-back video conferencing meetings every day, you’re not alone. Researchers have found that more people are searching for ways to deal with “Zoom fatigue,” aka, exhaustion from being on video calls all the time. MORE
OCTOBER 24, 2016
I’ve been writing about meetings and how to make them better for months. And, as you know, I even wrote a book about making meetings matter (available on Amazon.com at this link – contact me directly for volume discounts). Most of my ranting has been directed at senior executives and team leaders, because I consider them the most accountable for lousy meetings. I completely agree: that’s where the bad meetings epidemic begins. MORE
AUGUST 10, 2020
With the requirement for many of us to work from home it seems that life as we know it has morphed into one long, never-ending Zoom-Skype-WebEx-Hangout-Meet video fest. Our amygdala does the same when we walk into a virtual meeting. Endless Meetings. MORE
MAY 20, 2021
Our popular intranet conference is back, and this time we are hosting it virtually! . We hope to minimize video fatigue and make it easier for you to learn from some of the best intranet thought leaders. The cost to attend ThoughtSummit is only $99 per attendee. MORE
DECEMBER 1, 2016
One of my favorite instances of this benefit is the annual ExactHire company meeting. While we do meet as a team on a monthly basis, the annual meeting enables us to retreat off site and do a deep dive into the state of the organization, our long-term product road map and our business strategy. Having at least six of these yearly meetings under our belt now, I can say we’ve definitely improved our efficiency and meeting outcomes over the years. MORE
MAY 2, 2021
The most frequent activity a team engages in is a meeting and, generally speaking, meetings are either good or bad. The good ones look like this: The meeting is productive with creativity, energy, and people leave that meeting in a better place than before they arrived. There is a clear objective to bringing attendees together and everyone is engaged in the meeting to achieve that objective. The bad meetings look like this: There is no clear objective. MORE
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Virtual meetings are now the common daily practice for many employees, teams and organizations. Video conferencing platforms such as Zoom have seen exponential growth with a peak of over 300 million daily participants , joining zoom meetings in April 2020, up from 10 million in December 2019. MORE
DECEMBER 16, 2020
When do you want to attend an online HR event? Why attend? Why attend? Why attend? Talent Acquisition Week offers time for the TA community to come together and share best practices in pivoting and how they can move forward in 2021. Why attend? Why attend? MORE
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
A video interview can help you screen candidates more effectively in situations such as: Interviewing across different time zones or with hiring team members in different locations. Screening numerous candidates within a short time frame during rapid upscale. Video interviews help you get past these challenges, and identify otherwise overlooked talent as well as candidates who seem good on paper but lack necessary skills. What exactly are video interviews? MORE
APRIL 30, 2020
It’s the perfect time to do a virtual one-on-one meeting. Since employees and managers are working virtually, the meeting needs to be a bit more formal—not in terms of tone but scheduling and structure. This gives both the manager and employee time to prepare. MORE
MAY 12, 2020
Then why should the setting that candidates pick for their video interview matter? Let’s see what the most common candidate video interview red flags are and why you should take them with a pinch of salt: 1. If it’s essential for candidates to have good video skills (e.g. MORE
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Which of these top HR conferences will you attend in 2019? Video campaigns for talent attraction. The power of video to attract the mobile job seeker. Here’s a template you can use for a letter to leadership to justify attending any HR conference. Just fill-in the bracketed words with your specific conference details: Hello [Decision Maker], Re: Request to Attend [HR Conference]. MORE
MARCH 24, 2021
Video interviews have largely replaced live, in-person interviews in the past year due to the pandemic. We spoke with one of our career coaches , Natalie Fike, who has spent the last year providing video interview coaching and guidance, for some of her key tips. MORE
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Intoo USA
MARCH 24, 2021
Video interviews have largely replaced live, in-person interviews in the past year due to the pandemic. We spoke with one of our career coaches , Natalie Fike, who has spent the last year providing video interview coaching and guidance, for some of her key tips.
Ultimate Software
APRIL 30, 2020
It’s the perfect time to do a virtual one-on-one meeting. Since employees and managers are working virtually, the meeting needs to be a bit more formal—not in terms of tone but scheduling and structure. This gives both the manager and employee time to prepare.
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HR Digest
JULY 7, 2020
If it’s not Zoom meetings or virtual happy hours with colleagues, it’s catching up on Skype or FaceTime with friends and family. While it’s true that introverts are more comfortable with online interactions, the excessive videos calls weren’t exactly what most of us were expecting.
HR Bartender
MAY 12, 2015
(Editor’s Note: Today’s post is an excerpt from my book, “ Essential Meeting Blueprints for Managers.” There an important step to the training process – answering the question “Does it need to be a meeting?” Given the number of meetings out there, it’s amazing to me how many people don’t ask this question. There are two key elements to consider when trying to decide if the training you’re planning should be conducted during a meeting: message and medium.
Ultimate Software
AUGUST 10, 2020
With the requirement for many of us to work from home it seems that life as we know it has morphed into one long, never-ending Zoom-Skype-WebEx-Hangout-Meet video fest. Our amygdala does the same when we walk into a virtual meeting. Endless Meetings.
ThoughtFarmer
MAY 20, 2021
Our popular intranet conference is back, and this time we are hosting it virtually! . We hope to minimize video fatigue and make it easier for you to learn from some of the best intranet thought leaders. The cost to attend ThoughtSummit is only $99 per attendee.
Workable
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
A video interview can help you screen candidates more effectively in situations such as: Interviewing across different time zones or with hiring team members in different locations. Screening numerous candidates within a short time frame during rapid upscale. Video interviews help you get past these challenges, and identify otherwise overlooked talent as well as candidates who seem good on paper but lack necessary skills. What exactly are video interviews?
Thrive Global
APRIL 24, 2020
But even with technology to keep us connected and productive , collaborating with teammates over instant messenger and keeping meetings focused over video conferences can be challenging. Otherwise, I ask to be briefed on the meeting output in an email afterwards.”.
Business2Community Leadership
MAY 2, 2021
The most frequent activity a team engages in is a meeting and, generally speaking, meetings are either good or bad. The good ones look like this: The meeting is productive with creativity, energy, and people leave that meeting in a better place than before they arrived. There is a clear objective to bringing attendees together and everyone is engaged in the meeting to achieve that objective. The bad meetings look like this: There is no clear objective.
mysimpleshow
NOVEMBER 25, 2020
At the same time, a salesperson needs to be perseverant, determined, and ambitious enough to deal with challenging moments that might arise in their job. People who work in sales have very tight schedules as a result of meetings and calls. Onboarding Videos. Videos for Training.
Career Metis
DECEMBER 19, 2020
With face-to-face meetings out of the question, the next best thing recruiters can settle for is a video interview. . It’s not like video interviews were never a part of the recruitment process before the pandemic. The 2 Types of Video Interviews. One-Way Video Interviews.
Career Metis
JUNE 26, 2019
Despite awesome tools like as Zoom, Skype or Hangouts, remote teams still struggle on deciding when to meet and what subjects to cover and companies bemoan the loss of engagement opportunities for their employees. Using a well-thought-out system of remote meetings, you can help keep operations running smoothly, ensure every team member is on the same page, and keep your remote workforce feeling they a part of the big corporate family. 1) Meet-and-greet Sessions.
One Millimeter Mindset
APRIL 28, 2020
Consider the professional story you communicate when you either are a spectator or an active virtual participant during meetings. How you show up, during virtual meetings, sets up sensory expectations about your level of post-meeting engagement and performance.
Thrive Global
MAY 1, 2020
If you and your company shifted to remote work in the last few weeks, you’ve probably felt the urge to add meetings to your schedule to make up for the lack of unplanned face-to-face interactions that happen in the office. Avoid meetings about simple topics.
mysimpleshow
JULY 21, 2020
Communication is vital during times of crises. Or, you simply do not have the time to go through pages and pages of protocol because immediate action is necessary? Maybe team members are not able to attend a crisis meeting. Do this by means of video tutorials.
EasyHire
DECEMBER 8, 2019
In our post on the ‘Future of Interviewing is Here – Mobile Video Interviews’ we outlined how mobile video interviews allow you to increase your exposure to new candidates by as much as 36%. Trying to find a time that suits everyone can become a nightmarish puzzle of epic proportions.
Thrive Global
JULY 5, 2021
Not only could I engage from afar, but I could enchant , delight , inspire , and provoke real change , all the while spending quality time with my pregnant wife and subsequently my firstborn son. One 2020 study reported that 99% of people admit to multitasking during video meetings.
HR Ringleader
NOVEMBER 13, 2017
I’ve been thinking about meetings. Now that I am back in a corporate role, where my day is mostly filled with meetings, the importance of setting boundaries and understanding how to handle delicate situations is even more critical. Today, we take on the topic of how to run a strategic vs. tactical meeting. I’d challenge you to think of the last few weeks of meetings you attended, and I’d wager that most are tactical.
Workable
MAY 12, 2020
Then why should the setting that candidates pick for their video interview matter? Let’s see what the most common candidate video interview red flags are and why you should take them with a pinch of salt: 1. If it’s essential for candidates to have good video skills (e.g.
Business2Community
JUNE 17, 2020
As annual meeting season approaches, it is time again to consider whether businesses will soon shift to a fully-virtual format. Online-only and hybrid meetings have been occurring for years; however, 2020 is the first year that companies may be forced to cancel their in-person events altogether. Over the last few weeks, concerns over the global spread of coronavirus have prompted some large companies to switch their annual meetings to virtual-only formats.
Eagle's Flight
DECEMBER 16, 2020
Virtual meetings are now the common daily practice for many employees, teams and organizations. Video conferencing platforms such as Zoom have seen exponential growth with a peak of over 300 million daily participants , joining zoom meetings in April 2020, up from 10 million in December 2019.
Ongig
DECEMBER 13, 2018
Which of these top HR conferences will you attend in 2019? Video campaigns for talent attraction. The power of video to attract the mobile job seeker. Here’s a template you can use for a letter to leadership to justify attending any HR conference. Just fill-in the bracketed words with your specific conference details: Hello [Decision Maker], Re: Request to Attend [HR Conference].
Spark Hire
JULY 26, 2018
Spark Hire has been attending SHRM for many years and this year, SHRM was conveniently hosted in downtown Chicago. I was sent to the conference to meet with some of our customers. Video interviewing has become so popular at CASIS, Melody’s hiring managers request it be part of the process when they have vacant positions. Learn from Melody herself about why she loves Spark Hire in her video testimonial or read the transcript below! It’s an absolute time-saver for me.
SurveySparrow
JANUARY 4, 2021
Video Conferencing tools have become one of the most critical technologies of late, especially because of a virus strain that has brought the whole world to its knees. There is no denying the fact that Zoom is the most popular video conferencing tool in the market right now.
HR Digest
MARCH 29, 2021
Working from the comfort of your home was welcomed by many during corona times , but then the difficulties of working in a remote environment set in. Constant video conferencing, communication gaps, collaboration hitches, and loneliness seem to have hit the working population hard. .
Ask a Manager
FEBRUARY 7, 2021
This post, colleague’s wife and mommy group attended our work talk, references from a romantic partner, and more , was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager. My colleague’s wife and her mommy group attended our work presentation. I wish the timing were different.”.
Thrive Global
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
If you’re feeling the stress of bouncing from back-to-back video conferencing meetings every day, you’re not alone. Researchers have found that more people are searching for ways to deal with “Zoom fatigue,” aka, exhaustion from being on video calls all the time.
Julie Winkle Giulioni
AUGUST 11, 2020
Long before COVID-19 entered the scene, requiring a significant portion of work and work-related communication to go virtual, meetings were an all-too-frequent feature of the business landscape. What’s also grown is the level of frustration and exhaustion associated with meetings.
Jason Lauritsen
JANUARY 15, 2021
At the end of last year, I created a fun survey to invite people to share their biggest frustrations with virtual meetings at work. In all, there were over 600 votes cast to help us narrow down the worst practices of virtual meetings. 5 Worst Practices for Virtual Meetings.
ExactHire
DECEMBER 1, 2016
One of my favorite instances of this benefit is the annual ExactHire company meeting. While we do meet as a team on a monthly basis, the annual meeting enables us to retreat off site and do a deep dive into the state of the organization, our long-term product road map and our business strategy. Having at least six of these yearly meetings under our belt now, I can say we’ve definitely improved our efficiency and meeting outcomes over the years.
The HR Capitalist
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
In case you missed it, Google has decided to stop holding a weekly "all-hands" meeting they call TGIF in response to leaks and the meetings being dominated by issues considered non-core to the business (my words, not theirs). Here's my version of his email to announce the weekly "all hands" meetings are gone. Along the way and before this, we realized that our infamous "20% time" that allowed you to work on your own projects wasn't actually contributing to business results.
Future of Work
OCTOBER 24, 2016
I’ve been writing about meetings and how to make them better for months. And, as you know, I even wrote a book about making meetings matter (available on Amazon.com at this link – contact me directly for volume discounts). Most of my ranting has been directed at senior executives and team leaders, because I consider them the most accountable for lousy meetings. I completely agree: that’s where the bad meetings epidemic begins.
SuccessFactors
OCTOBER 3, 2018
The core strategy team arrives in the meeting room. The IT guys are busy testing the projector and making sure the video conferencing connections are seamless. The boss is already anxious and stressed out—for this is a crucial meeting that will define the future of his unit. Needless to say, this was a totally ineffective, mismanaged and unproductive meeting—and everyone knows it. Let’s start with the lack of a structured design for the meeting. 9:57 a.m.
HR Ringleader
MAY 8, 2015
A friend recently shared a funny video about conference calls and what they would look like if they were in person. It’s made the social media rounds, but was still good for a laugh one more time. It got me thinking about meetings… specificaly conference calls, since I work from home. I pulled up my calendar and just looking at 2015, it appears I spend anywhere between 10- 50% of my week sitting in some type of meeting. ” All the time!
SuccessFactors
OCTOBER 3, 2018
The core strategy team arrives in the meeting room. The IT guys are busy testing the projector and making sure the video conferencing connections are seamless. The boss is already anxious and stressed out—for this is a crucial meeting that will define the future of his unit. Needless to say, this was a totally ineffective, mismanaged and unproductive meeting—and everyone knows it. Let’s start with the lack of a structured design for the meeting. 9:57 a.m.
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