Every team meets. But most teams run their meetings the same way their grandparents did. Now, it's time to bring how we meet into the modern era.

Alongside the rise of technology, the past century has seen amazing advances in the understanding of how teams can best work together in groups. We know more than ever about how groups can collaborate, innovate, motivate and make decisions together effectively.

Here are four types of meeting technologies to build on those revelations and run more successful meetings:

1) Video conferencing. Video conferencing beats audio conferencing every time. Most corporate teams have access to video conferencing and recording technology, but few put it to use.

We've become too comfortable hiding out on mute, where we're out of sight, out of earshot and free to put our attention elsewhere. Some people often prefer dial-in meetings because it means they don’t have to even pretend they're paying attention.

Video conferencing software also provides the opportunity to record meetings and transcribe the audio. Finally found a time when all the top execs can meet about a big project? You aren't going to get all those people together again easily, so make sure you get as much detail as you possibly can out of the time you have.

For example, pair Zoom's video-conferencing software with a Meeting Owl camera to make sure you get a good 360° video of the current speaker.

2) Meeting management software. Teams that collaborate on documenting their decisions and next steps during meetings are more engaged, more efficient and more committed to the outcome of a meeting. More importantly, meeting management systems demonstrate the best way for other teams in your organization to run their meetings.

Meeting management software makes it easy for teams to collaborate on meeting agendas and capture meeting notes. A meeting management system also makes communicating meeting instructions easy. That means no one has to guess what should be on the agenda, how long the meeting should be, how to lead each part of the discussion or what needs to be written down.

Teeming, BoardVantage and Lucid Meetings are examples of technology in this category.

3) Visual collaboration and decision support. Many of the most effective, engaging and productive meeting techniques take advantage of our natural ability to process information visually. Teams see patterns more easily when they can move data around, draw connections and visualize different outcomes.

The teams that developed these techniques used lots of sticky notes. After the meeting, they spent a lot of time typing up all those scribbles and cleaning the room. Visual collaboration and decision support software make the sticky notes digital. Teams collaborate in real-time from anywhere and no one has to type up anything.

The best tools provide other benefits you can't get using paper. For example, when collecting feedback in a decision support tool, you can make every contribution anonymous to increase the chances of getting honest, useful feedback.

Example software includes MURAL, Stormz, GroupMap and iObeya.

4) Meeting feedback and performance tracking. There are over 55 million meetings every day in the U.S. alone, according to Lucid Meetings. Moreover, executives spend 72% of their time each week in meetings, according to McKinsey.

However, very few organizations track this time. Can you think of any other business process that isn't tracked or measured in some way?

Meeting feedback and performance tracking technology gives organizations insight into this massive investment. Some technologies automatically calculate meeting costs based on calendar data, creating the hard numbers leaders need to make decisions about how often they should meet. Other technologies use artificial intelligence to analyze meeting feedback and predict whether a project will succeed or if a sale is likely to close.

Examples in this category include MeetingQuality, Gong.io, and Inspirometer.

Great meetings are possible, they just require changing the way we organize and run them. In the past, you needed lots of facilitation training and blank wall space—not anymore. With these four technologies, great meetings are possible for everyone working from anywhere.

Elise Keith is the co-founder of Lucid Meetings and author of “Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization.”