I recently came across a humorous posting on the Boing Boing blog by Cory Doctorow on a 1944 CIA Simple Sabotage Field Manual with tips on how to sabotage the workplace. This resurfaced manual sounds eerily familiar to meetings I am in at work with tips such as
“- Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.”
“- Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.”
I started working on my own list of tips to add some humor to the web conferencing planning process:
How to Sabotage a Web Conference
1. Send unclear meeting instructions to enrollees
2. Do not begin or end the session on time
3. Do not practice or rehearse your session prior to the actual live delivery
4. Speak for long periods of time and do not move your slides frequently
5. Do not engage participants via polling, chatting or other interactive features.
The list could go on and on, but I’ll stop there. You get the idea!