by Rosemary Ravinal | Oct 4, 2021 | Video Conferences, Video Meeting Management
With video conferencing here to stay, remote workers fear that being “out of sight and out of mind” may jeopardize their career success. Similarly, being but one tile in the mosaic of faces during a meeting poses challenges when you want to be noticed and included in...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Sep 28, 2021 | Video Conferences, Video Meeting Management
Zoom fatigue entered our lexicon early in the lockdown. Dry eyes, neck pain, and dysmorphic disorder spiked as we overdosed on video conferences. In case you’re wondering, the latter symptom of video meeting exhaustion has to do with obsessive attention to perceived...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Sep 14, 2021 | Executive Communications, Video Conferences, Zoom Score
Video communication engages two senses of our five: sight and sound. But how can we stimulate the other three with the existing digital technology? We can do it through the memory of how things taste, feel and smell. Video calls favor what we see over what...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Sep 7, 2021 | Executive Communications, Video Conferences, Zoom Score
A female client in Colombia, a senior insurance executive, told me recently that she wears her favorite pearl necklace and a silk blouse every time she fires up her video to join a meeting. Another mid-level manager in healthcare with a dozen direct reports...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Jul 26, 2021 | Fear of Public Speaking, Public Speaking Tips, Video Conferences
At the start of the lockdown when our lives migrated to Zoom, a CEO coaching client of mine said he welcomed being distanced from the audience because his legs shake from nerves when speaking in person. He was excited about being able to read from a script on the...
by Rosemary Ravinal | Jul 12, 2021 | Video Conferences, Zoom Score
When you are communicating your big ideas, persuading, and inspiring others, it is your voice that helps establish your authority and humanity. You have heard from me and others that 90% of what people communicate is visual. Hence the enormous benefit of video...
