What makes people want to participate

Define a problem that can be solved quickly, assign people to groups of two or three max. Give them a medium with which to communicate with one another video conference, Slack channel, messaging platform, audio breakouts.

Give them a very limited time frame to take on a highly structured and brief task. I want you to take two minutes in your breakout group to identify a global regret: a client you believe you could have had a much bigger deal with if we had worked together better in the past 12 months. Nothing disengages a group more reliably than assaulting them with slide after slide of mind-numbing data organized in endless bullet points.

In other words, select the least amount of data you need to inform and engage the group. A side benefit of this rule is that it forces you to engage the attendees. He should be able to make his case with one or two slides, then use any additional slides to accomplish the tasks in rules above. Never go longer than 5 minutes without giving the group another problem to solve. Participants are in rooms scattered hither and yon with dozens of tempting distractions. In his minute presentation, Raul should have brief, well-defined, and meaningful engagement opportunities.

But the stakes are even higher today when team members are out of sight and their minds are free to wander. Following these five rules will dramatically and immediately change the productivity of any virtual gathering.

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