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Online Meeting Etiquette What’s What’s
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irtual meetings have become an essential part of how businesses maintain contact with staff and clients to ensure productivity and continuity. As many people internationally are engaging in a restricted form of work, few organisations and individuals can still communicate using traditional methods. Taking this practice of online connections forward, it is a costeffective way to align multiple offices, keep remote employees engaged and stay in touch with clients and stakeholders. I have also used this way of communicating to connect with family and friends – often resulting in more frequent chats than our previous face-to-face get-togethers.
Online meeting etiquette has become a hot topic – Marjon Meyer advises on how to avoid embarrassing mistakes.
While virtual meetings have likely been a part of your daily work routine for some time now, it’s still easy to fall victim to some major meeting faux pas. Virtual meeting etiquette is a whole new ball game. Continued on next page careersuccess magazine issue 2020
