- Critically review whether you need a meeting for the subject you have in mind
- Information sharing should happen asynchronously and not in your online meeting
- Engage everyone who attends in an interactive exchange and collaboration
- Only call people to your online meeting who add value and get value from it
Actually, when I think about it, these four prerequisites basically apply to all other meetings just as much. Online meetings have the additional challenge, though, that it is even easier to get distracted and much harder to keep people engaged.
Now let me explain in some more detail what I mean with these tips.