With working from home the new day-to-day for growing numbers of knowledge workers worldwide, the choice of technology we use to collaborate and communicate with our colleagues has a growing impact on our personal productivity and business success.
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The way video brings people together has certainly changed forever, and might find it hard to remember when we look back, for example, that people once had hang-ups about turning on their webcams. Since March, GlobalMeet Collaboration has seen a 700% surge in webcam usage for virtual meetings. People working from home are finding video helps to make connections and feel productive, and this is just the kind of user-driven trend that GlobalMeet is delivering against.
Indeed, larger numbers of HD video screens are now rolled out, in an elegant new UI designed to make the most of all screen sizes, as well as integration with G Suite calendar — making scheduling a breeze for the 1.5 billion active Gmail and Google Calendar users, and mobile video and scheduling make it easy to plan and participate from anywhere at all.
Because what matters now the panic is resolving and strategic decisions are being made about the long term, is removing the friction from online collaboration, making it as close to ‘IRL’ as it possibly can be.
Let’s make notes
As CMO, Mark Roberts, summed it up, based on their brand’s 30 years experience in this industry, “There are a number of areas where we figured out the richest and best ways to do this, aren’t necessarily the most obvious and immediate ones ways.”
Such as bringing people together through intuitive native whiteboarding functionality, where “you can have those really creative, organic, conversations, construct an argument and develop a debate, just as you would face to face.”
“What many leaders miss most is being able to get a group of people into a room with a bunch of markers and notecards and talk through a complex problem, come up with a resolution. That’s really hard from a cultural perspective”
These are the kind of solutions to which enterprise will be turning, when considering the strategies necessary to underpin successful long-term working from home.
The right mix of intuitive features
Because for that to work out, a real blending needs to happen, with the tools and technology for work becoming as frictionless and intuitive as the consumer apps we’re all addicted to. That’s where GlobalMeet Collaboration’s mobile app plays to its strengths, enabling users to move around their space and their schedule flexibly, rather than in Outlook-like 1 hour chunks.
As Roberts explained, “Those informal, edge-type conversations are so important, the watercooler moments that you don’t tend to schedule, they’re vital for connection and culture. And combining mobile with the whiteboarding tool you can do fun things like a virtual scavenger hunt, to bring teams together.”
It’s all about making the tech itself disappear, get out of the way, and just let people interact naturally.
“The tools have to be of high quality, that’s a given. But they have to facilitate the culture, encourage and support people to behave remotely as though they really were in the same room.
“It’s all about the people, that’s how we’re thinking about it, and how we approach our product development”
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