The Friday Mailing Postings

8. My priorities for on-site meetings and events

From Friday Mailing 10th December 2021

We are being encouraged to work from home again. This reminds us of how limited on-site events might be over the coming months. I offer the following rough guide to how to use that time effectively:

• Don’t waste onsite time delivering content. Prioritise worshipping together and building relationships (eating together, informal discussion and perhaps a seminar based on learning done online)
• There is a limit to how much Zoom people can cope with. Consider using video and other online activities to deliver content in advance and using Zoom time for small group discussion, ideally with a tutor. Remember up to about 6 people on Zoom means you can all have your microphone on and can talk almost normally

Finally, for this year, someone asked me if I had ever properly laughed on Zoom. The answer is yes but only in a very small group (I think it was 3 or 4 people). I would suggest that as Zoom meetings get bigger, they rapidly get less personal and less satisfactory in terms of interaction. Have a Great Christmas.    Ken