Success factors then and now
Posted: Tue Dec 17, 2024 8:28 am
In a fun, light-hearted way, you convey a sense of solidarity and connection. A nice side effect? You also see your colleagues in a different way. With cats, dogs, children, in their own environment and in our case - and for accountancy quite special - without the tight suit.
Casual, but not too casual as happened to Good Morning America host Will Reeve .Casual working from home
6. Online bingo or a pub quiz: digital socializing from home
Work is not just work: it also has a very social function. When you work full-time, you sometimes spend more time with your colleagues than with your own partner. Now that everyone is working from home, people miss the social interaction, the office humor and the conversations that are not about work for a while.
Because in all those calls it is to the point and efficient consultation: that is necessary, useful, but not necessarily pleasant. (And that digital consultation, by the way, already yields a bingo in itself: the 'home work video call bingo')
Work from home video call bingo
Digital socializing is fun and important to involve and keep colleagues involved. Of course, not every colleague is 'in' for an online pub quiz or bingo and that's fine. For many colleagues, it is a welcome distraction or addition to their work week. And such an online bingo or pub quiz can be perfectly combined with a small gift: tasty snacks as a gift.
When organizing an online pub quiz, many organizations can take an example from Coolblue . They not only built a small digital party with their employees, but they also used social media to share this bit of digital work fun from home with many others.
We also organised our own online pub quiz: 107 colleagues participated. A considerable turnout on Friday afternoon with almost a third of our colleagues.
Working from home pub quiz
Use working from home to renew your internal communications
In your internal communication, you can now make great strides as a marketing and communication team. Everyone in the organization, at all levels, experiences how successful the use of this type of technology is to be able to collaborate, inform each other and maintain social contacts and work pleasure from home.
With the things you are deploying now, you are clearing the way to innovate at high speed. The internal video update in which our chairman of the Executive Board updates colleagues is definitely a keeper, as is the pub quiz. But we have now also been able to concretize our plans for making podcasts and webinars.
Without this corona crisis, we would have needed more time to convince our internal stakeholders of the added value.
expectant eyes look at the stage. The chairperson opens the day with gusto, asks the attendees to stand up if they have traveled more than half an hour or an hour and asks what the participants are bringing and contributing to the meeting. How do you ensure this interaction during online meetings?
In meetings in a room, the results often depend on the process of starting up, deepening and concluding. These three phases are also on the agenda for online meetings. However, other factors are at least as important for an online meeting. When the technology, process design and focus of the moderator and participants are in order, the interaction that is necessary for good results in the real world is possible.
Unfortunately, many online meetings are still denmark telegram data terribly slow and unproductive. Chairs and speakers find it difficult to manage communication between participants. In this article, you will read how to achieve successful online interaction via a video connection.
Choose what should happen during the meeting
Author Penny Pullan states in her book Virtual Leadership that a successful online meeting lasts a maximum of one and a half hours. So you really have to choose what participants do during the meeting.
Meetings are often focused on:
Selling Ideas (webinar)
Decision making (dialogue)
Learning and innovating (workshop)
Networking (corporate event or trade fair)
For each desired yield, you provide a different type of interaction.
Casual, but not too casual as happened to Good Morning America host Will Reeve .Casual working from home
6. Online bingo or a pub quiz: digital socializing from home
Work is not just work: it also has a very social function. When you work full-time, you sometimes spend more time with your colleagues than with your own partner. Now that everyone is working from home, people miss the social interaction, the office humor and the conversations that are not about work for a while.
Because in all those calls it is to the point and efficient consultation: that is necessary, useful, but not necessarily pleasant. (And that digital consultation, by the way, already yields a bingo in itself: the 'home work video call bingo')
Work from home video call bingo
Digital socializing is fun and important to involve and keep colleagues involved. Of course, not every colleague is 'in' for an online pub quiz or bingo and that's fine. For many colleagues, it is a welcome distraction or addition to their work week. And such an online bingo or pub quiz can be perfectly combined with a small gift: tasty snacks as a gift.
When organizing an online pub quiz, many organizations can take an example from Coolblue . They not only built a small digital party with their employees, but they also used social media to share this bit of digital work fun from home with many others.
We also organised our own online pub quiz: 107 colleagues participated. A considerable turnout on Friday afternoon with almost a third of our colleagues.
Working from home pub quiz
Use working from home to renew your internal communications
In your internal communication, you can now make great strides as a marketing and communication team. Everyone in the organization, at all levels, experiences how successful the use of this type of technology is to be able to collaborate, inform each other and maintain social contacts and work pleasure from home.
With the things you are deploying now, you are clearing the way to innovate at high speed. The internal video update in which our chairman of the Executive Board updates colleagues is definitely a keeper, as is the pub quiz. But we have now also been able to concretize our plans for making podcasts and webinars.
Without this corona crisis, we would have needed more time to convince our internal stakeholders of the added value.
expectant eyes look at the stage. The chairperson opens the day with gusto, asks the attendees to stand up if they have traveled more than half an hour or an hour and asks what the participants are bringing and contributing to the meeting. How do you ensure this interaction during online meetings?
In meetings in a room, the results often depend on the process of starting up, deepening and concluding. These three phases are also on the agenda for online meetings. However, other factors are at least as important for an online meeting. When the technology, process design and focus of the moderator and participants are in order, the interaction that is necessary for good results in the real world is possible.
Unfortunately, many online meetings are still denmark telegram data terribly slow and unproductive. Chairs and speakers find it difficult to manage communication between participants. In this article, you will read how to achieve successful online interaction via a video connection.
Choose what should happen during the meeting
Author Penny Pullan states in her book Virtual Leadership that a successful online meeting lasts a maximum of one and a half hours. So you really have to choose what participants do during the meeting.
Meetings are often focused on:
Selling Ideas (webinar)
Decision making (dialogue)
Learning and innovating (workshop)
Networking (corporate event or trade fair)
For each desired yield, you provide a different type of interaction.