There are no dues or fees for AA membership we are self-supporting through our own contributions. The only requirement for membership is a desire to stop drinking. Our primary purpose is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety. The meeting that could have been an email.Alcoholics Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism. Take a little more time, improve your writing skills, and put it in an email. If you can say it better than you can write it, use Loom or a Loom alternative. Not seen in headlines? “Employee comes home from work reports being ‘really tired.’” Grabbed from the headlines: “80% of US workers experiencing ‘Zoom fatigue:’ survey.” Case in point, Pew Research, which found that “Among employed adults with a job that can be done from home and use video calling or online conferencing often, 26% are ‘worn out’ by the amount of time spent on video calls.” It’s not Zoom fatigue it’s too many meetings. Zoom fatigue is real, but it’s not the same as meeting fatigue. The chatter about Zoom fatigue misses something. It doesn’t separate the underlying problem - too many meetings and too many back-to-back meetings. Does everyone need to be there?Ī meeting isn't a parade. If you're measuring your status by how many show up to your meetings, you have deeper problems.įirst, what is the meeting for? Are we there to make a decision? To brainstorm or create? Is it for tracking and status? To inform? Just answering the question is a start. It helps you understand if there should be a meeting. You can then let people know why you’re having the meeting. Should we not do more work and less coordination?īook a meeting with yourself. This is focus time for you to get work done. If you think better with others, and collaborate, add one, maybe two people to the meeting. Use meetings to increase social connection.įour, in this case, is a crowd.ĭecrease the number of meetings to organize the work. I am not advocating for more Zoom “happy hours.” Thankfully, that fad has been and gone, like Troll Dolls and Tamagotchis. But, if you are leading a meeting, be aware of the value of small talk - the idle, non-work-related banter that establishes social connection and builds trust in the team. In a peer-reviewed study, Stanford researchers examined actual Zoom fatigue. They found four underlying causes: excessive close-up eye contact, mirror fatigue, long periods of immobility, and the strain of trying to interpret nonverbal cues.Įxcessive close-up eye contact imagine standing in a crowded elevator, your eyes gazing down. Looking directly at someone you don’t know that well is too intense. With Zoom, it can feel like we are staring a little too intensely into someone’s eyes. The cure: change Zoom's settings and window size so that others' faces seem sufficiently 'far enough’ away to you. Some of us could stare in a mirror all day. If you don’t like how your face looks, you’re more prone to ‘mirror fatigue.’ Staring at your face all day long on Zoom is psychologically exhausting. Immobility - not: "I have no bandwidth, my video is frozen," but "I am sat, immobile, frozen in place for hours." There is a cure: Once you are happy that your camera is working and others can see you, use the "hide self-view" button to avoid looking in the mirror. “Schedule shorter meetings!” and “move around between meetings!” If your oppressive schedulers won't do that, feel free to switch the video off for five minutes and walk around. The last cause of zoom fatigue comes from the strain of interpreting non-verbal cues. It’s simply easier, in person, to pick up the non-verbal “my turn” to talk signal. There are a few simple tricks for figuring out “my turn” to talk on zoom. If you are running the meeting, help people figure out when to speak - especially if some on your team have trouble with the non-verbal cues or are under-participating. In a report out or check-in, the current speaker picks the next speaker when finished. This way, everyone knows they have their 'turn' and waits for the baton. In a small group meeting, the added advantage is that you have to pay attention, as you could be up next, and have to remember who has spoken. You have discussed a topic now you want to poll people’s opinions.
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