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You don't need special knowledge to be an effective communicator in online meetings.
- 00:05 Let's debunk a couple of myths here.
- 00:06 You're not trying to put on a big fancy TV show.
- 00:10 You don't have to hire a makeup artist to have a video conference.
- 00:14 You just don't.
- 00:15 This is not primetime network TV.
- 00:17 This is just another form of communication.
- 00:22 Your entire life you've had to learn how to use different forms of communication,
- 00:27 writing, writing on a computer, sending a text message,
- 00:31 creating a tweet, leaving a voicemail message.
- 00:35 These are all a little bit different.
- 00:37 They're not necessarily harder, they're just a little bit different.
- 00:41 Speaking on an online meeting is a little bit different, but it's not harder.
- 00:47 You just have to learn the basics, and
- 00:50 realize you're perfectly fine doing it as you are.
- 00:53 You don't need plastic surgery.
- 00:55 You don't have to be beautiful, or thinner, or anything else.
- 01:00 You are perfectly fine as you are, but I will be giving you tips on
- 01:04 how to make you come across your very best and not distracting.
- 01:09 But realize you already have everything you need to be effective when it comes to
- 01:14 communicating in online meetings.
- 01:16 The technology is simple, it's plentiful, that part is easy.
- 01:21 The hard part for most of us is up here, telling ourselves I'm not a TV person.
- 01:26 I'm not a video person.
- 01:27 I'm a behind the scenes person, nonsense.
- 01:30 If you have to have a face to face meeting with someone in your office,
- 01:35 you can't lurk behind the curtain or in the shadows, or
- 01:39 hide behind a chair and say, well, what we do.
- 01:43 No, you can sit there and talk to them.
- 01:47 That's really all this is too.
- 01:49 So, I want to start stripping away this sense that you might have,
- 01:54 that this is a completely different arena, or
- 01:57 that it requires radically different skill sets from ones you've previously used.
- 02:02 Now, it's just a little bit different, you can do this.
- 02:08 There's no one perfect size, fit, look, for
- 02:11 being the star of a video conference meeting.
- 02:14 You're fine as you are.
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