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How to have more inclusive meetings over Zoom 

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10-29-2020 08:51

Looking to make your virtual meetings more inclusive? Dolly Chugh provides 15 ideas you can start using today in her post via ideas.ted.com: 


How to have more inclusive meetings over Zoom
Oct 20, 2020 / Dolly Chugh

My personal experience — and the prevailing wisdom of management and psychology research — is that meetings default to patterns like these:
    • Whoever speaks first is likely to set the direction of the conversation.
    • The higher-power, more extroverted, majority-demographic people are more likely to take up disproportionate airtime, receive credit, be given the benefit of the doubt and interrupt others.
    • The larger the group, the less meaningful the conversation — and the less likely we are to break out into more meaningful, smaller group discussions because doing so is time- and space-consuming in the physical world.
    • Key information is less likely to be shared when it is already known by others; lesser-known but important information tends to not be shared broadly.
    • Whatever we did in the last meeting, we are likely to do again in the next meeting
The result is predictable: A sub-optimal, sub-inclusive meeting.

I believe we can do better.

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Alison Randall
10-30-2020 15:24

Thanks for posting this article. I am doing a presentation for our Employee Learning Week about Team Collaboration while working virtually and this article has some great points. I really like the opportunity to leverage Zoom to learn people's names/call name preferences and pronouns. Such an easy thing to do can go a long way in terms of building relationships!