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(Violet Dashi\/U-M Dearborn News)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Few aspects of office life inspire more grumbling than meetings. And the fact that they\u2019re taking place almost exclusively online now hasn\u2019t helped their reputation much. But according to U-M Dearborn instructional designer Autumm Caines<\/strong>, who\u2019s been facilitating virtual meetings since 2015, much of the \u201cdoom and gloom of Zoom\u201d can be softened with a few simple tweaks<\/a> to your team\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the most significant ways virtual meetings differ from their in-person counterparts is when two people attempt to talk at the same time. Caines says try leaning on the chat feature a little more in your meetings \u2014 especially large meetings. In fact, she says chat is generally a great tool for boosting participation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another one of Caines tips: Think of hosting a meeting almost like you\u2019re hosting a party. For example, try assigning a designated greeter, who shows up early to acknowledge each person as they log in and help alleviate the awkwardness for the “first arrivals.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zoom fatigue got you down? Experiment with these techniques for smoother, more productive, more interesting team meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[217,36,915,806],"class_list":["post-23140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-professional-development","tag-culture","tag-dearborn","tag-worklife","tag-zoom"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/zoomtips_repoter.jpg",894,500,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/zoomtips_repoter-400x266.jpg",400,266,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/zoomtips_repoter-300x168.jpg",300,168,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/zoomtips_repoter-768x430.jpg",665,372,true],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/zoomtips_repoter-600x336.jpg",600,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/zoomtips_repoter.jpg",894,500,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/zoomtips_repoter.jpg",894,500,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/zoomtips_repoter-200x140.jpg",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/zoomtips_repoter-60x42.jpg",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/zoomtips_repoter-658x300.jpg",658,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/zoomtips_repoter-665x372.jpg",665,372,true],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/zoomtips_repoter-400x266.jpg",376,250,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Zoom fatigue got you down? Experiment with these techniques for smoother, more productive, more interesting team meetings.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23140"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23140\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23144,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23140\/revisions\/23144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}