Ground Rules for Video Conferencing

Use these 6 easy tips to ensure your team is efficient and professional in video conferences.

COVID-19 has made remote work a must instead of a nice perk, and video conferencing is becoming a necessary way of life for businesses all around the world. While some of your employees may be remote work veterans, a large number may have never worked from home before. In this case, setting up ground rules for video conference calls will be a necessary first step for your business during these turbulent times.

To help out, we’ve done the hard work for you. Here are six of the most important ground rules to keep in mind during your video conferences, presented in a handy checklist you can send out to your team.

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About the Author

Collin Couey

Collin Couey is a senior content writer at Capterra, covering medical and construction technologies, with a focus on emerging medical and construction industry trends. Collin has presented at the Conference on College Composition and Communication, as well as the Pop Culture Association Annual Conference.

Collin’s research and writing for Capterra is informed by more than 80,000 authentic user reviews and nearly 60,000 interactions between Capterra software advisors and medical and construction software buyers. Collin also regularly speaks to leaders and practitioners in the medical and construction spaces so he can provide the most up-to-date and helpful information to small and midsize businesses purchasing software or services.

When he isn’t helping small and midsize businesses get the most out of their medical and construction technology, Collin loves playing disc golf and Dungeons and Dragons.