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Make a List
Fact: You can now literally meet ‘face to face’ via video conference with stakeholders just about anywhere in the world without leaving your desk. This is a significant advancement and its implications are worth thinking about for a few minutes.
Below is a 2 minute exercise that I hope is of use to you in contemplating the relevance and opportunities ubiquitous laptop video conferencing presents to your business:
1) Make list on a piece of paper of your key relationships that make your business tick (i.e. top 3 clients, suppliers, staff and contractors)
2) Next to each relationship describe how important meeting ‘face to face’ is to the relationship and also why you meet face to face (e.g. selling, building trust, managing, brainstorming, coaching/counseling etc).
3) Next consider how being able to run regular quality ‘face to face’ meetings via video conference with the person(s) involved would benefit each relationship (especially the people you can only see every 3 months). Some examples might be:
- Increased trust leads to increase in sales
- Increase of geographic reach leads to increased size of addressable market
- Reduced travel costs results in reduced cost of service delivery
- Clarity of communication leads to a reduction in error related costs
- Zero travel time fast-tracks meeting and decision making cycles for global teams
If you have found are some exciting possibilities in the above exercise and would like to find out more, please contact us to discuss what is possible .