In this episode of The Collaboration Space, Newline’s Tyler Rittenhouse shares insights into how to support more productive meetings. He offers ideas on how to keep your audience engaged before, during, and after your meetings by using flexible technology like interactive displays.
How can we get people’s attention and keep their eyes on shared content during a meeting?
Create a meeting space focal point to increase engagement
Create a meeting environment that invites interactivity. An easy way to do this is to bring the consumer experience into the B2B meeting room. You can do that by making the interactive flat panel display the focus of the meeting.
With a larger, super-bright display as the focal point for meeting participants, they’ll know exactly where to look as they collaborate. The right displays will be easy to use and make annotating documents a breeze during collaboration sessions.
Keep your audience engaged before, during, and after the meeting
Think of meetings as being more than just the time blocked out on your calendar. These working sessions can be viewed as three parts: pre-meeting, meeting, and post-meeting. And you need to keep participants engaged throughout each stage.
During the pre-meeting stage, think about how and why participants will join the meeting. Then communicate the purpose of the meeting, create an agenda, schedule the meeting, and share clear notes on how to join. During the meeting, focus on keeping participants’ attention, which also helps attendees retain information. Interactive whiteboards help by enabling:
- Document annotation
- Real-time note-taking
- Digital note capture
- Video conferencing
After the meeting, you can quickly access meeting notes, updated documents, and the recording of the meeting. Interactive whiteboards can become a living document, allowing you to quickly pull up a meeting file if you forget what was discussed during last week’s collaboration session.
Plus, there is the “wow” factor of getting out of your seat and touching the screen. Having the ability to easily interact and annotate during the meeting keeps participants focused on the content and engaged in the discussion.
What makes Newline solutions different?
Newline interactive display solutions are non-proprietary, offering easy interoperability. For example, if a meeting room already has AV solutions, the existing technology can stay in the room while you add Newline panels as a focal point.
With a wide range of flexible solutions, Newline can complement your existing technology and add the new functionality you need. Whether your team wants a simple display or an all-in-one panel with built-in cameras and microphones, Newline has easy-to-use solutions to tie everything together and improve meeting engagement.
Keep your audience engaged and energized with interactive displays
Getting and keeping people’s attention during and after meetings are keys to successful collaboration. Make meetings as interactive as possible to encourage engagement, information retention, and successful follow-up. And don’t forget to make a super-bright, easy-to-use display as the meeting room focal point. If you need help updating your meeting spaces, AVI-SPL can help. Contact us today.
