Attention: Trainers And Managers Who Need To Run Virtual Meetings
How to run great meetings with engaged staff - more effective, more productive, better outcomes.
Real-time learning exercise to practise meetings skills in a virtual meeting scenario.
Improve your audio, video, lighting, behaviour, etiquette
Develop a redundancy programme and a home-working strategy
Can form part of a facilitated training programme or be self-administered by the team
4-7 participants
Time allowed: 90 minutes
Introduction
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The Zoom Meeting simulation has been designed for team members to practise vital meeting skills, with the additional challenge of being physically separated.
The simulation can be undertaken in a traditional training environment or as a virtual exercise with team members in different locations and communication limited to email and video conferencing. In either case, the simulation gives team members an opportunity to practise vital meeting skills.
Running it as a virtual exercise brings learnings in how to improve your audio, video and lighting set up, how to behave on a Zoom call, and appropriate virtual meeting etiquette.
The comprehensive facilitated review of behaviours and achievements at the end of the meeting enables the team to extract and embed the learnings from the exercise.
There is sufficient content for a follow-up meeting to be held to practise the learnings revealed in the review, and further explore the issues related to managing an office re-opening.
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Scenario
The management team of this organisation has been under lock-down during a virus pandemic. Some staff have been working from home and some have been furloughed.
Unfortunately, this year there has been a global pandemic and the company is facing the end of a lockdown that has caused the offices to be closed during a six month lock-down. Some staff have been working from home and some have been furloughed. Production has continued on a restricted basis at a separate location.
A team meeting has been called to discuss and decide arrangements for re-opening the office premises.
Currently, the organisation employs 50 staff. The board has previously decided that, in response to economic forecasts, this number must be reduced by 25%. They are prepared to offer redundancy payments of £1,000 for each year of service, and pro rata. Statutory rights apply.
Health and safety considerations suggest that working spaces will have to be reorganised and that the maximum office capacity will be reduced to 28 workstations.
The team is required to decide a strategy for re-opening the office:
How many and who should be made redundant
How many and who should be required to work from home
Layout and capacity of the office premises
Consultation and communication
Decisions should support the long-term success of the organisation.
Real-time learning exercise to practise and improve meeting skills
Training in how to set up your video terminal and participate in meetings
Comprehensive resource pack on working from home, redundancy rules and the post-COVID world of work
Objective
To demonstrate the need for structuring and controlling team meetings and to allow groups to practise meeting skills such as chairing, influencing, listening, consensus-seeking and decision-making.
The simulation has been designed for four to nine players. It can form part of a formal training programme – and is also suitable for a team to use as a self-administered exercise.
Skills practised
Setting up a virtual meeting
Participating in virtual meetings and webinars
Chairing
Structuring and controlling discussions
Participation/assertiveness
Influencing
Listening to others
Consensus-seeking and decision-making
In addition, the exercise provides an opportunity to explore:
How to handle redundancies
Equal opportunities policy
Pros and cons of working from home
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It is good practice for meetings to be followed by a short review of the processes and behaviours:
What happened during the meeting?
What went well?
What was not so successful?
How could the meeting have been improved?
After a training session it is worth doing this analysis in more detail.
The Zoom Meeting pack includes a set of questions under these headings:
Behaviour of the chair
Structuring and controlling discussion
Influencing
Listening
Consensus-seeking and decision-making
Dealing with insufficient information
Administration and organisation
Behaviour
Recommendations for improvement
What you get
All materials required for this exercise are provided in a downloadable zip file and identified for easy email distribution to the participants.
The reports for the meeting provide information about using technology for virtual meetings and webinars, including sound, lighting and behaviour.
In addition, the support papers and the discussion generated in the meeting give insights into how to handle redundancies and home-working.
THE TRAINER'S PACK
These documents are for the use of the trainer/organiser and should not be automatically distributed to the participants.
Trainer's Guide
Organiser Instructions
Role allocation – complete this and then send to participants
Management meeting review – send to participants at the end of the meeting*
PARTICIPANTS' PACK
These documents are to be sent to the participants with notice of the meeting and, if relevant, the link to the conference call. Ideally, this will be at least the day before. If the exercise is part of a training workshop they may be distributed at the start of the exercise; in which case allow 30 minutes to study them before the start of the meeting.
Instructions for participants
Agenda
Report: Staff analysis and home working survey results
Report: Three scenarios for the post-COVID world of work
Report: National furlough scheme
Report: Statutory redundancy
Report: Equal opportunities policy
Report: Office reorganisation
Zoom meeting best practice
Personal behaviour at a Zoom meeting
Licensing
You may re-use these materials within your own organisation as long as you retain the copyright note.
If you would like us to develop and introduce a bespoke management exercise for your organisation, then contact us now.
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