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April 20, 2021 Membership Meeting: Stakeholder Engagement to Manage Risk

Linda Howard presents: Zoning out? Or Zooming In? – How Stakeholder Engagement Helps You Manage Risk in Virtual Meetings Have you noticed that you easily pay attention in some virtual meetings while others put you to sleep? How often do you tune out or check your email during an online meeting? What is the real impact of meetings where attendees feel disengaged and start zoning out? Whether you are hosting a virtual event or attending one, making an online meeting engaging is critically important to achieving the goals of the event. When you are the meeting host, you are designing and conducting online meetings to achieve a specific objective. You may want to educate or inform your attendees, raise awareness of or build consensus around a particular issue, or provide a forum for distributed team members to develop a solution to a problem. Each meeting has a particular goal or objective. But when attendees are not able to or not interested in participating in the event, those objectives will not be met. In this session, we’ll focus on how to plan more engagement into our meetings in advance, whether it’s a brief team meeting or a longer workshop or event, so we can keep our attendees engaged and minimize the risks to meeting our objectives.