How to make hybrid meetings not suck

If you want to make work better, you also need to look at how you do meetings. Meetings is a big part of work and hybrid meetings is still a fairly new trade. How do we create a good experience for both physical and remote attendance?

There’s also the technical subtleties, like finding the mute button, being too loud, decent sound quality, turning the camera on/off, background photos are much more.

As always, I find it really interesting to learn from how practitioners are approaching it. Thomas Dugaro, heads up IT Collaboration at Hamburg-based publishing giant Gruner + Jahr and at a recent peer group meeting, he generously shared some of their initial thinking on hybrid meetings.

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Retrospectives Antipatterns or Team Meetings That Don’t suck

Using a wonderful example of the fictitious software firm Titanic Corp, experienced facilitator and agile coach Aino Corry made it clear in our recent member conference call, that the point of a retrospective is not to blame Peter, but rather to understand the circumstances that led to striking an iceberg and ultimately sinking.

Aino has recently written a book about antipatterns for retrospectives because she seemed to be making the same mistakes over and over. Antipatterns are like patterns, only more informative. With antipatterns you will first see what patterns re-occur in "bad" retrospectives and then you will see how to avoid, or remedy, the situation.

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