You’d Better Sit Down For This

you might want to sit down for this one but don’t stop moving I want to talk about the virtual space and how to be dynamic in this space because you spend a lot of your time in Virtual meetings in hybrid meetings and orchestrating people who are in a room and also not in a room and you are not bringing that energy let’s define the energy we’re talking about you came to us and said many times we want this somehow to be more like in the real world in person where we can make connections with people so easily how do we do that here well take a look at what you’re not bringing to the equation which is anything three-dimensional so I know cuz I’ve been into your meetings I’ve seen you in meetings and what you do is you you plant yourself and you flatten your energy you usually relax sometimes hands on your desk and then you look down because you’re looking at the lens and then you stop moving and then all we’ve really got going is a portrait of you board with moving lips it reminds me of my children who are now adults and they still watch SpongeBob and in SpongeBob they cut to a pirate a painting with talking lips that’s what you’re bringing to this meeting you’re not carving out an experience of 3D space but you can be 3D here and try to translate your 3DS to this two-dimensional window so this the same rules apply in a more limited way that appli to a presenter when I’m on stage presenting I’m constantly changing things doesn’t necessarily mean I’m constantly moving it’s that I’m moving and then I’m stopping I’m gesturing and then I’m not gesturing I’m raising my voice and then I’m pulling you in with quiet notice how I’m moving in here I can turn my chair a little bit and I can show you different postures different sides of me I can also lean in to increase intensity and I can step back to relax these are the things that present ERS do and they have to happen here because your two-dimensional window is boring and why is that important well interestingness is part of Engagement and what everyone complains about including you is that people aren’t engaged like you want them to be on the virtual space well hey you you have to be alive to engage them you have to be interesting to engage them and also the good news here is everyone else that you’re meeting with including your clients is doing a pretty terrible job at this which the good news of which is you can stand out by bringing aliveness to this experience when I’m on a meeting it’s a virtual call a teams meeting with 30 people everyone notices me now I’m being careful it’s not like I’m waving my hands and trying to get attention I’m somewhat cautious about having my hands too close to the camera I try to reain it into the space but I’m alive in this space and I am seen so sit down for this don’t take it lying down but don’t stop moving be in your virtual space and be in an alive way so that you can create an experience that engages your meeting audience