We've continued to try to adapt the old format with technology and furniture to support that workflow. Everybody read a report together and put in their two cents. That's what an old-style meeting room was set up to do. Plus, we didn't have the assets to distribute the information in the context that we needed.
In a pre-information-age world, a physical meeting was needed to share information, because that information couldn't be delivered digitally. For a long time, we've needed an impetus to redefine meetings. Now that the work environment has reopened, we should be defining a new, optimal approach to meetings that blends the best of both worlds. We hit a plateau and even began to recede. That initial productivity boost from having the extra couple of hours at home and not in the car was fading. This is when we began to see a curve of diminishing returns. Rather than switching gears, we were grinding into every second to make it to each meeting.
The traditional commute also provided a transition period from home life to the office mentality, which was now lost.īut when we were exclusively working from home and people assumed we were sitting at our desks, we ended up in three, four, or five hours of back-to-back meetings just switching Zoom rooms. Even just a few minutes to walk around the office and get a cup of coffee allowed time to reset and adjust our mindset for the next session. Gone were the usual breaks between meetings, for example, to drive to another location. With "Zoom fatigue", it was very difficult to engage nonstop, all day long without the traditional social cues we receive when we're in person. Next was the point of being biologically and psychologically maxed out. The traditional meeting was not spared either. Tradeshows went virtual after being cancelled. Then came the wave of Zoom happy hours, online roundtables, and virtual events.
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We were even kind of excited to have some of our free time back, avoid our daily commute, and get a reprieve from having to be in the office every day. In the first few weeks of the pandemic, most people adapted fairly well in transitioning to digital tools. It’s a changed world, and our conception of "common spaces" and "meetings" must adapt accordingly. Remember the pre-pandemic days? When we almost exclusively took part in in-person meetings? When everybody on the calendar invite was expected to gather in one place at a certain time?Īs most of corporate America is aware, those days are long past us and will likely never fully return. Do you sometimes find yourself stuck in a vicious circle trying to create a new approach to meetings that are productive, but in spaces that were designed 40 or 50 years ago? It's time to consider outcome-based design, Eric Lockwood, Technology Director of Design, Tangram, says.
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