A survey of online seminar participants finds a scam for 2020.
Online seminars can be deadly boring at times, even if you are interested in the subject. We try to avoid anesthetizing the audience by incorporating live polls into our presentation. In October, during the How we prospered Online Seminar (Watch the recording Here If you missed it!), I was particularly interested to know how audience members thrived in 2020, compared to respondents in our study.
Here is what we asked the participants in the online seminar, and how they responded:
Q: In 2020 your organization changed its way of doing business
- very much
- to a certain extent
- Not at all?
A: A third of the participants (33%) answered “to a large extent”, and another 59% said that things had changed “to some extent”. Only 8% felt that things had not changed at all. So, unsurprisingly, the vast majority faced at least some major job changes.
Q: 92% of audience members who experienced major changes in their work environment then considered what virtual project management strategies their organizations used to keep track:
- 88% employed virtual teams
- 60% used virtual training techniques
- 42% relied on virtual project management (including cloud-based systems and / or PMaaMS)
These responses reflected the findings in our research report. Before the epidemic, organizations used only “to a small extent” virtual project management. The sudden transition to remote work has led to the rapid adoption of all sorts of virtual methods, methods and technologies (to see all the examples, download the research report here). True, many organizations have struggled with these changes. As our research data indicates, the highest performing organizations have already been skilled at using virtual teams, training and prime ministers before Injury to the epidemic. They were able to leverage their experience and knowledge, while companies that did not invest in virtual strategies had a very steep learning curve.
However, it seems that most of our audience, as well as most of the respondents to the research, feel that the challenges of 2020 have yielded some benefits:
Q: Would you say that changing the work environment
- Increasing trust and involvement among stakeholders
- Adversely affected the trust and involvement of stakeholders
- Did not affect?
A: The majority (57%) responded that they saw increased trust among stakeholders. Another 29% reported no effect. Only 14% thought the effect was negative.
These answers were joyful in two ways. First, the responses of the webinar seminar audience echoed the research findings, giving us confidence in our results. Second, it is gratifying to hear that in times of great change, people have come out of the melting pot in a positive spirit. Virtual project management showed its quality in 2020; The effects of its adoption will be long-term, and for most practitioners, it is a sufficient result for a very difficult period. And it’s a thought to ponder this weekend of Thanksgiving.