Top 12 Questions to Start your Virtual Meetings on a Positive Note

Virtual Check-Ins are a compelling new way to keep you connected with your colleagues uninterruptedly. You can develop lasting camaraderie by allowing your team to connect with you one-on-one in a team setting. 

Despite using a pretty straightforward principle of work, virtual check-ins are incredibly fruitful. I consider them a valuable way of conducting weekly team meetings. Though each teammate gets 2 minutes to speak, it’s enough to create a profound impression.  

However, virtual check-ins are not as easy as you may think. A successful check-in is an art very few can master. You can be the one if you follow my tips. 

TIP: Craft your questions in a format that people can answer within 2 minutes!

Our Check-In routine:

Here are the tips and tricks we always follow to hold productive and successful virtual meetings.

• Start the Team meeting with some Music to spend the time while people are joining in.
• Set the stage for a collaborative meetup by briefly explaining company values, mission, beliefs, and weekly recognition. 
• Allow the person who has prepared the Check-In question to read it aloud for the team and then post it on chat. 
• Let the person who has asked the question, answer it for themselves first, and then ask the other group member to answer it.
• Employ a sequential approach when people are answering questions to pay attention to each one’s answer properly.
• Ask your team to keep passing the question in turns until all members have answered the question.
• In the end, invite the person who prepared the Check-In question to nominate someone else from the team to prepare them for the next meeting.

TIP: Run the check-in in a rotational style to drive engagement and create a pleasant atmosphere.

I generally put my Check-in Questions into three groups: Personal, Business, and Dream.

Check-Out my Top #12 Check-in Questions

Personal:

1. What’s your opinion about (a current event)? 

2. What kind of morning routine do you follow?

3. Which book or movie helped you change your perspective about yourself and the world?

4. Share a fun fact about yourself, please?

Business:

5. If you could choose anyone in the world to help you at your job for a day. Who would it be, and Why?

6. Tell us what you intend to accomplish by Friday?

7. What was your biggest business accomplishment in the recent past?

8. What advice would you give to yourself 12 months back from what you know today?

Dream:

9. What was your biggest dream in High school?

10. What’s that one thing you came across recently that helped you feel motivated and hopeful?

11. If given a chance to be anyone in the world for a day, who would it be?

12. What‘s your idea of an ultimate dream vacation?

What’s your favourite Check-in Question to start a Meeting?