1. Disturbing factor: The technology
The most common reason for bad online meetings is technology: "There are always some kind of technical problem. You can't hear the others or there is annoying background noise." Some complain that no connection is established at all or that it suddenly breaks off during the meeting. Or the transmission keeps getting stuck.
Project managers often don't know what options their virtual meeting room offers them to better manage discussions within the team. There are always meetings in which employees only use the audio channel - and, in the best case, screen sharing. The other great functions of the tools are completely unknown to many.
Project managers are particularly irritated by the fact that employees simply do not participate iran telegram data in their meetings: "You ask questions, but no answers come. You ask people for feedback, but nothing comes. I often wonder if they are still there or if I am talking into the void."
Why is that? On the one hand, it is completely natural for many employees to behave passively in online meetings. That is how they have been used to it. In organizations, it is a widespread standard that one person speaks and everyone else listens. Or not.
On the other hand, project managers in online meetings do not ensure that participants are actively involved. Instead, they are primarily concerned with getting their own messages across and are only interested in feedback from participants in the form of rhetorical questions. A real dialogue, exchange, brainstorming session in which everyone should really contribute does not take place in this way. Is it any wonder that employees are then busy with all sorts of things at the same time?