The Meeting Coach
InterCall's Monthly Newsletter

How to Stop People from Checking Email on Your Time
Have more interaction and build better relationships by adding the web to your audio conferences.

We all know that meetings can be drag, especially when you just cannot get engaged in the discussion or topic. It’s not only you. A recent study found that 90 percent of audio conferencers multitask during the meeting and do not pay full attention to meeting content.

The survey also uncovered that the most frequent distractions during audio conferences include:

• Doing other work projects (70% frequency)
• Looking for materials being discussed in the meeting (69%)
• Reading or sending email and instant messages (50%)

In the end, this all leads to an unproductive meeting and a wasted hour. Ensure your meetings don’t wind up like this by adding web conferencing to your audio conference calls.

What you get when you add web conferencing to your meetings:

• MORE INTERACTION—engage your participants by allowing them to annotate on the screen or provide voting buttons for feedback through a polling feature.
• IMPROVED COMMUNICATION—easily keep everyone updated by showing the agenda, taking notes or presenting slides on the screen, ensuring that the discussion stays on-topic.
• BETTER RELATIONSHIPS—create more trust and respect within your team, and with customers and vendors, by allowing more collaborative opportunities during your meetings.
• MORE PRODUCTIVITY—collaborate in real-time and make edits on-the-fly using application and document sharing.

There are many studies in evidence that show that we retain only 10% of what we hear…and that’s if we are really paying attention! If you want your meetings to be engaging and result in better takeaways and productivity for your participants, you need to add the visual and interactive elements. You’ll keep a captive audience and get more accomplished.

Give web conferencing a try!

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