Tag: Meetings

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Communication Productivity

How to send a calendar link to schedule meetings without being a jerk?

When you send a calendar link to a prospect or a customer to schedule a meeting on your calendar, it matters how you ask them to book a meeting.

You should give more importance to them and respect their time.

In your email, don’t say – “Go ahead and book the time here: <link>”.

A more respectful approach is:

“How’s your availability later this or next week? If it would be easier to schedule, here’s my availability: <link>.” 

With this approach, you’re giving them a priority and respect by asking them their availability first.

Then you’re also sharing a Calendar link to make it efficient for them.

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Philosophy Productivity

Meeting Participants’ State of Mind

There are a lot of folks who are experiencing video meetings a.k.a. Zoom fatigue with the new normal of working remotely.

What if you get asked – “How do you feel?” before and after each meeting? 🤔

It needs to be a very lightweight approach to capture each participant’s “state of mind”.

Before the meeting, you can select one of the options:
• Great: Well-prepared, well-rested, excited, or calm.
• Meh: Not prepared, overwhelmed, tired, or distracted.
• Worse: Sad, angry, depressed, sick, or injured.

And after the meeting, you can select one of the options:
• Great: Inspired, hopeful, confident, or decisive.
• Meh: Confused, hopeless, doubtful, overwhelmed, or distracted.
• Worse: Angry, unhappy, lost, frustrated, or sad.

In Avoma, we already capture each meeting’s “Purpose” and “Outcome” to track meeting level success.

But this is taking it to the next level and understanding each participant’s success.

It would be interesting to capture participants’ feedback over a certain period and see how it affects meetings’ outcomes and employee satisfaction.

What do you think? Would you like to track this?

How could it be helpful for you as an individual and your team?