If you’re like many of us, your world has changed and suddenly you’re doing all of your communicating through video. Where you used to sell in person, you’re now scheduling meetings with customers on Google Hangouts. You used to meet with your manager (or those you manage) once a week in person—now you’re meeting daily on Zoom. How do we adapt?
Heather Hansen, CEO + Founder of Advocate to Win walks us through five ways to win your next video call.
It’s no secret that we are living in an unprecedented time, and the impact has been felt in one way or another across industries. As we adapt, we find ourselves looking for a way to maintain a sense of normalcy. Since the spring season is a prime time to host an event, one way we’ve been able to establish a new normal is bringing events to life—with a virtual twist.
Preparing for an event comes with a long checklist of tasks, and creating a visually engaging presentation can often be a stressful one. Catching your audiences’ eye is one obstacle, but keeping it is another. Having a visually engaging presentation is an easy way to help your audience absorb and retain the information you will be speaking about.
Quarantine Conference, a one-day virtual event presented by Hawke Media on April 7 provided a calming presence and content to soothe fears amid uncertainty during this otherwise difficult time. Here’s a recap of a few sessions attendees loved.
“I work remote” has quickly become a buzz phrase in our everyday vernacular. Whether our virtual lifestyles are due to social distancing in response to COVID-19 or simply the ever-changing nature of work, adjustments to our daily routines and workplaces have been unavoidable.
Working remotely has its challenges, so why not make things a little easier? We have compiled some of our favorite tips & tricks from experts on telecommuting to help us through this time of extreme uncertainty.
With the current climate and situation surrounding COVID-19, thought leaders are transitioning and adapting to virtual formats to continue sharing their ideas and solutions. There are many tools and tips to help adapt a presentation to online, but one hurdle remains: how do you keep a virtual audience engaged when you can’t read the “digital room”?
We put together a few helpful tips to ensure your presentations are engaging and prevent attendees from clicking “leave meeting.”
Switching up your speaking strategy can be a daunting task—especially when it calls for shifting away from being on stage, and toward being on screen. In this time of extreme global uncertainty, many conferences and events are either being canceled, postponed, or moving to virtual—from Facebook’s F8, to Google’s Cloud Next, to Austin’s famed SXSW (see our running list of events here). As the events industry looks to tackle the challenges wrought by COVID-19, the question stands: how can speakers stay ahead of the curve while also doing their part to flatten it?
When you think of the term “thought leader,” what comes to mind? It’s always been defined as being a known expert or trusted source in your field. Thought leadership exposes your business to your market in a credible way. To build it, it's important to step up and bring your industry to a higher level of thinking about the strategic problems it faces.
As we face this abrupt shift in our lifestyles with COVID-19, nothing changes with how we define thought leadership, but we are needing to get more creative with how we practice it. What remains consistent amid all these changes(and arguably now more than ever)?
