By Eva Jo Meyers Despite the COVID-19 pandemic shaking up our world right now, business owners, employees, and stakeholders still need to have meetings, maybe now more than ever. Here are 10 tips on how to conduct effective meetings virtually when you are unable to have them in person: 1. Do some extra preparation Just connecting over Skype or FaceTime and expecting meetings to run the same way they would if everyone was together in a room is a recipe for a lot of wasted time. This is a perfect opportunity to tap into the principles of the flipped classroom.