{"id":49601,"date":"2020-04-14T16:37:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T05:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/?p=49601"},"modified":"2020-04-14T16:42:16","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T05:42:16","slug":"new-poll-on-virtual-meetings-how-tech-savvy-are-advisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/2020\/04\/14\/new-poll-on-virtual-meetings-how-tech-savvy-are-advisers\/","title":{"rendered":"New Poll &#8211; How Tech Savvy Are Advisers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"polls-230\" class=\"wp-polls\">\n\t\t<div class=\"pollHeader\"><strong>How well are you coping with the technology involved in attending, or hosting, virtual meetings with clients and\/or colleagues?<\/strong><\/div><div id=\"polls-230-ans\" class=\"wp-polls-ans\"><ul class=\"wp-polls-ul\">\n\t\t<li>I'm learning fast <small>(33%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 33%\" title=\"I'm learning fast (33% | 20 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>Quite easily <small>(30%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 30%\" title=\"Quite easily (30% | 18 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>It's not easy for me <small>(20%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 20%\" title=\"It's not easy for me (20% | 12 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<li>What's wrong with the phone? <small>(17%)<\/small><div class=\"pollbar\" style=\"width: 17%\" title=\"What's wrong with the phone? (17% | 10 Votes)\"><\/div><\/li>\n\t\t<\/ul><div style=\"text-align: center\"><\/div><\/div>\n\t\t<input type=\"hidden\" id=\"poll_230_nonce\" name=\"wp-polls-nonce\" value=\"7a60e8fa55\" \/>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>It seems a lifetime ago that we were able to have a business meeting over a cup of coffee, visit a client at home, or a colleague at their office.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to say how long the restrictions on social distancing will continue, but meanwhile we have had to turn to video calling for those important face-to-face meetings and to share documents while we chat.<\/p>\n<p>While it was business as usual for some, others have had to grapple with setting up accounts with video chat service providers, and then working out how to manage &#8216;virtual&#8217; meetings.<\/p>\n<p>In short, they work best when only one person speaks at a time \u2013 it&#8217;s like going back to the days of the talking stick. It&#8217;s a less-than-natural experience for many.<\/p>\n<p>This week, we&#8217;re asking how you are faring when it comes adopting this new way of working and interacting with clients and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems a lifetime ago that we were able to have a business meeting over a cup of coffee, visit a client at home, or a colleague at their office. It&#8217;s hard to say how long the restrictions on social distancing will continue, but meanwhile we have had to turn to video calling for those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":49604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49,7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-49601","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-polls","8":"category-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49601\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riskinfo.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}