5 ways to improve your video presence in 2021
Use these tips to make the most of virtual meetings, presentations and chats in the new year.
We’ve been in this pandemic long enough to know viscerally that video conferences don’t work as well as face-to-face communication. There’s something missing – and we know what it is: connection.
The human connection we had often taken for granted before the pandemic started thrives from – requires – face to face communications. The normal signals that connect us are muted on video conferencing. Even though we can see the other person, their affect is muted by the two dimensions, the small size of the other person, the bad lighting, the slight delay between video and sound, and proprioception, all which I’ve talked about before.
How do you make video conferences a boon for commitment, rather than a trial the participants endure?
The hard answer is that you have to bring more to the party than you might have done before.
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