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3 Powerful Questions To Make Your Virtual Meetings More Engaging & Productive - 3 Brains Hacks

1 Mar 2021 · 2 min

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In this short instructional monologue, Christoffel Sneijders proposes three diagnostic questions to assess the "temperature" of virtual meetings: (1) How focused are participants? (2) How connected do they feel with the group? (3) How safe do they feel to speak up? He shares typical score ranges observed in his webinars—focus 6‑8, connection 4‑5, safety 6‑8—and explains why these levels matter for engagement, collaboration, and willingness to ask vulnerable questions. He then urges viewers to ask these questions at the start of their own webinars or meetings, monitor the real‑time scores, and immediately adjust the session to improve focus, connection, and psychological safety.

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How much focused are you now? How much do you feel connected with the group? And how's your feeling of safety in this group? And what you can see while you see the numbers coming in, this is a total normal score. So when I say it's normal, what I mean is it in the webinars I did the last year, these scores were almost always this number between a 6 and 8 for the focus of the people. Between a four and a five for the connection, and something between six and eight for the safety in the group. So I'm just curious when you think about your own meetings, what do you think the scores are? Any meetings you have with your company, the webinars you have, what are do you think are your scores of the people who are attending? Because if it's a six to eight focus, actually. There is no 100% focus for there, so they're still busy with other things. So that decreases the quality and the results. When there's not a real connection, how much people are really willing to work with each other and help each other? And when the safety is not optimal, then how much really do you think people dare to step forward and ask confronting Vulnerable questions. Now, what is my call to action for you? Why don't you ask these questions when you start doing a webinar or a meeting, and just come aware how the temperature is of the of the group, and maybe then on that moment you can also right away start taking action to change it. I wish you all the best with it. Success! Cheers.