{"id":14916,"date":"2023-09-08T14:36:11","date_gmt":"2023-09-08T19:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imegcorp.com\/?p=14916"},"modified":"2024-08-29T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T16:52:12","slug":"four-strategies-to-level-up-your-hybrid-meeting-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/imegcorp.com\/insights\/blog\/four-strategies-to-level-up-your-hybrid-meeting-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"Four strategies to level-up your hybrid meeting equity"},"content":{"rendered":"
By Mark Bradley and Davin Huston<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Chances are, you\u2019ve been in a hybrid meeting gone wrong. You\u2019re attending virtually, only to discover you are having a tough time seeing and hearing the participants on the far side of the call. You raise your screen-hand to comment, and no one notices. You’re distracted by background noise or the chatter of side discussions in the room.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Or perhaps you\u2019re attending in person and can\u2019t tell who all is in the virtual room and can\u2019t distinguish which virtual attendee is speaking because they are lost behind a presentation screen.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The result is meeting attendees who feel ignored, isolated, cut out, or sidelined, which has been shown to lead to dissatisfaction, disengagement, and reduced productivity.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n To solve that problem, there\u2019s a growing trend toward \u201cmeeting equity,\u201d enabling all attendees, wherever they are, to equally take part in a meeting or classroom activity.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n New strategies are increasingly being used in colleges and office training environments that allow the participant to choose their best way to learn whether by attending a class in real-time (in person or online) or watching at their convenience\u2014or a mix of those strategies. These strategies mix same-time in-person, same-time online, and on-demand online experiences.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Achieving meeting equity in these scenarios requires technological and acoustics solutions. Here are four strategies:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n No matter the technology, the meeting host will still need to be committed to making the meeting equitable and inclusive. But the growing number of AV tools can go a long way toward supporting that goal.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Mark Bradley is an IMEG Project Executive and the <\/span><\/i>company\u2019s A\/V technology expert<\/span><\/i><\/a>. Davin Huston is an IMEG <\/span><\/i>Technology Designer of Distinction<\/span><\/i><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" New strategies are increasingly being used in colleges and office training environments that allow the participant to choose their best way to learn whether by attending a class in real-time (in person or online) or watching at their convenience\u2014or a mix of those strategies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[241,3,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acoustics","category-blogs","category-technology"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n