Virtual comms can be very dry
(Or as someone recently described them to me – “an unending morass of tedious rubbish”).
One reason for this is that face-to-face is more intimate.
And people aren’t working hard enough to replace this lost intimacy.
The solution?
Work hard to replace the intimacy!
For example:
- Swap slides for questions. Instead of spending ages creating slides that guarantee only you talk – instead prepare great questions, to ensure they talk
- More often; shorter length. Replace the weekly one-hour meeting with two half-weekly, 30-minute ones
- Small talk. Discuss things that aren’t work – family, hobbies, sport… anything
- Find the fun. Before every meeting, one of my customers Googles the meeting’s topic, plus the word “funny”. They then choose a funny comment, joke, quotation or image, and mention it in the meeting
To be honest, I miss some of the things we all used to do.
But I also miss the excitement of believing in Father Christmas.
But things are different now.
And it’s up to all of us to help each other – and ourselves – enjoy things as much as we did.
Are you doing your bit?
Action Point
Add more fun to your – and others’ – day.
This will help: it’s my short video showing how to be more interesting.