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Coaching for Leaders

472: How to Run an Online Meeting, with Bonni Stachowiak

Coaching for Leaders

Dave Stachowiak

Management, Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 June 2020

⏱️ 39 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Bonni Stachowiak: Teaching in Higher Ed

Bonni Stachowiak is the host of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast, a professor of business and management at Vanguard University, and my life partner. Prior to her academic career, Bonni was a human resources consultant and executive officer for a publicly traded company. She is the author of The Productive Online and Offline Professor: A Practical Guide*.

Key Points

  • Be apparent about the purpose of your meeting: connect, align, decide, ideate/brainstorm, plan, or produce. Discover more from Mamie Kanfer Stewart.
  • You need to be more apparent and intentional about timing, transitions, and facilitation in an online meeting than with an in-person one.
  • Use a service like BombBomb* for video messages that don’t require live interaction.
  • Unless background noise or size of the meeting prevents it, invite people to “unmute” so you can have richer dialogue without interruption.
  • Alert people if they have audio issues. Get headsets for your team, if possible. We use and recommend the Jabra Evolve line* of USB headsets.
  • Number one rule for lighting: position light in front of you and not behind you. If the front light can be natural (i.e. facing a window) even better.

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0:00.0

Bet you're running more online meetings than you ever have. In this episode, Bonnie and I share our tips and strategies for leading online meetings with success.

0:09.0

This is Coaching for Leaders, episode 472.

0:13.0

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

0:20.0

Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is coaching for leaders and I'm

0:27.4

your host Dave Stahoviac. Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.

0:38.0

Normally the first Monday of the month, we are tackling questions from you and we will be doing that in future.

0:45.6

First Mondays you can send over your questions to coaching for leaders.com slash feedback.

0:51.3

However, today we wanted to take a little bit of a different look at something that's

0:55.8

extremely timely for many of us, which is how to run an online meeting and many of you know

1:01.7

that Bonnie and I have been doing a lot of this not only

1:04.5

recently but actually we've both been running and facilitating and being involved

1:08.6

with online meetings for many many years and we've seen a lot like you have online on advice on this over the last

1:16.0

couple of months and now that many people are doing this a lot more and some of

1:21.2

the initial advice has gotten out there and you've had many

1:23.7

iterations of running online meetings. We wanted to jump in and perhaps provide some

1:28.1

additional perspective, some nuance, a bit of strategy that we haven't yet heard as much in other spaces.

1:34.7

So with that I'm glad to welcome back Bonnie Stahoviac to the show and help me to tackle this topic.

1:41.0

Hello Bonnie.

1:42.0

Hi Dave, I was chuckling as you introduced the topic because I was thinking about, you know,

1:47.5

online meetings, that's something I'm increasingly growing my experience in every single hour of every single day. Okay not quite that

1:55.8

but not quite that much but I've been doing a lot. Kind of like that the last few

2:00.6

weeks and not just the two of us but also compounded with we have two children, one that is six, the other that is eight, who also now have their own online meetings to attend and participate in.

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