Managing Remote and Hybrid Teams: Creating a Positive Meeting Experience

A positive meeting experience and ongoing communication rely on several components including: a purposeful agenda, positive energy, and intentionally selected technology-facilitated communication tools. To create a positive meeting experience, you must be intentional in developing the agenda and deliberate in creating a positive mood and energy among participants. The type of communication that occurs early on in meetings predicts communication occurring later for the team. Meetings should start in a way that ensures subsequent interactions are as positive as possible. Due to the lack of frequency of face-to-face meetings for virtual and hybrid teams, technology-facilitated communication is essential to the collaboration process; leaders need to be deliberate about selecting the proper communication tools, provide hands-on training and ongoing tech support.