By: Jenny Harue Challongen, Nadra Ally & Amy Chartrand
Fanshawe College - Office Administration - Health Services (Summer 2022)
Virtual Meetings
Virtual meetings have become an integral part of the workflow in modern workplaces. It plays an essential role in work continuity and communication.
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Virtual Meeting Invite
When you send out a meeting invitation, it's enticing to mail the invite quickly to ensure the guests don't schedule or accept another meeting's invitation at the decided time. Aside from mentioning the time and date and the objective of the meeting, it is important to include the meeting agenda to let the participants know the topics for discussion in the meeting or any instructions related to it that they need to prepare for.
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Useful online meeting tools that can optimize your virtual meeting
Zoom
Zoom is no doubt one of the most used platforms in video conferencing as it offers tons of features and is scalable to specific business requirements. As per Dhaval, it's also the most user-friendly tool that supports small and large enterprises alike. In addition, it works on multiple devices, from your desktop computer to your smartphone, and is a highly reliable platform to utilize.
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Microsoft teams
Microsoft Teams is also a good platform to use for document sharing, as the shared workspace software makes it much easier to achieve, especially if a particular team is based in a very large company, has many remote employees, or is made up of a significant amount of team members.
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Top 2 Benefits of Virtual Meetings
1. Saves time
Virtual meetings negate the need to travel and will save you plenty of time that can be utilized elsewhere more effectively not to mention commute hassles as well.
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2. Boosts productivity
All in all, people get their jobs done more quickly and efficiently. You set your plan, schedule, manage your time accordingly, and optimize it to enhance productivity. Also, you can curate your environment and remove the things that are a distraction.