{"id":120,"date":"2024-01-20T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-20T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heartforchange.org\/challenges-of-conducting-a-board-meeting-online\/"},"modified":"2024-01-20T22:00:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-20T22:00:00","slug":"challenges-of-conducting-a-board-meeting-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/heartforchange.org\/en\/challenges-of-conducting-a-board-meeting-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenges of Conducting a Board Meeting Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/travelboardroom.com\/\" >travelboardroom.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Online board meetings can improve scheduling options, eliminating time constraints from travel and cost restrictions from hotels and flights. They also can help reduce groupthink and increase diversity between board members. The virtual world has its own set of challenges, which can lead to less than effective meetings.\n<\/p>\n<p>Changing from in-person to virtual meetings requires a change in the manner boards communicate and operate. In order to facilitate communication during online meetings, many of the elements used in an in-person board meeting must be recreated. This includes the physical boardbook, digital presentations and sharing documents. It can be challenging for board members to navigate the technology. The use of a basic board software package helps streamline the process, but additional training on the tool could be needed to ensure board member success.\n<\/p>\n<p>Engaging the audience and keeping it productive is another challenge when conducting an online board session. Distractions from discussion topics can eat up time and distract from the most important topics on the agenda. This can be minimized by creating an agenda that has 20% less items and breaking the discussion into 15 minute segments. In addition, offering an ad-hoc discussion platform for new topics could be beneficial.\n<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it is crucial for remote participants to be able to be able to see the faces of in-room attendees. This can be achieved by removing backgrounds or moving participants away from light sources that can cause glare on the screen and obscure images for other board members. Eliminating distractions like cell phones and other gadgets will enable participants to concentrate on the discussion.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>travelboardroom.com Online board meetings can improve scheduling options, eliminating time constraints from travel and cost restrictions from hotels and flights. They also can help reduce groupthink and increase diversity between board members. The virtual world has its own set of challenges, which can lead to less than effective meetings. Changing from in-person to virtual meetings [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartforchange.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartforchange.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartforchange.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartforchange.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartforchange.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/heartforchange.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heartforchange.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartforchange.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heartforchange.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}