by Steven Maddocks | 31 March, 2021 | Online Meetings, Presentation Skills, Presenting to Camera, Voice
Among all the terms future dictionaries will inherit from COVID-19, ‘Zoom fatigue’ is certain to feature. (It applies to all video conferencing software, but ‘Microsoft Teams fatigue’ doesn’t have the same ring.) Citigroup employees are clearly fatigued: on 23 March,...
by Martyn Barmby | 4 February, 2021 | Communication, Online Meetings, Performance, Presentation Skills, Presenting to Camera, Public Speaking
Yesterday (3rd February 2021) I ran a webinar for CFA UK, and there were a couple of questions about how I managed my set up. In particular people wanted to know about how I kept eye contact with the camera while using notes. Here is a photo of my set up: You will...
by Nicola Hainey | 27 January, 2021 | Communication, Online Meetings, Presentation Skills, Public Speaking
Feeling disheartened already setting new year’s resolutions? We understand. 2020 was an unbelievably challenging year. There is still so much uncertainty around what options will be available to us in 2021 which can make setting resolutions tricky. We can’t...
by Nicola Hainey | 5 January, 2021 | Blog, Body Language, Communication, Online Meetings, Presenting to Camera
The impact of Covid 19 transformed the world as we knew it last year. We have been reflecting on what this has meant for the way we communicate as humans. It feels that we have adapted from age-old, ingrained, means of communication to entirely different norms in a...
by Martyn Barmby | 15 December, 2020 | Leadership, Online Meetings, Perception, Presentation Skills
Particularly in the corporate world, Powerpoint slides crammed with tiny writing, diagrams and complexity are entirely the norm. Many people complain about Powerpoint overload but still we are presented with huge decks of barely legible slides. Following on from our...
by Martyn Barmby | 19 November, 2020 | Authority, Online Meetings, Presenting to Camera, Public Speaking, Q&As
History was made at Prime Minister’s Question Time yesterday when Boris Johnson took part by video link. We were interested in how this would affect the dynamic of the exchanges, particularly with the leader of the opposition Keir Starmer. We noticed an...