Kim Foley: ...how to convey power and presence in virtual meetings

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2020

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The pandemic has forced most of us to attend meetings virtually. Zoom meetings have become an everyday occurrence for a lot of workers, like us, who want to look and sound great with this new way of getting together with colleagues and family alike.

So, how do you do that? Our guest on this episode, Kim Foley has plenty of ideas to help. Kim is an award-winning TV producer, media trainer and television stylist and she’s written a new book called, Virtual Meetings with Power and Presence: The Ultimate Guide to Online Meetings.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me, I'm Jan Black.
0:14.5	And I'm Laura Owens.
0:16.1	The pandemic has forced most of us to attend meetings virtually.
0:20.4	Zoom meetings have become an everyday occurrence for a lot of workers like us who want to look and sound great with this new way of getting together with colleagues and family alike.
0:29.6	So how do you do that? Well, our guest on this episode, Kim Foley, has plenty of ideas to help. Kim is an award-winning TV producer, media trainer, and television
0:39.2	stylist, and she's written a new book called Virtual Meetings with Power and Presence,
0:45.3	the ultimate guide to online meetings. Kim, thank you so much for joining us. I'm so happy to be here.
0:52.1	How did you get into this line of work?
0:54.7	Well, you can see from my background that I have a background in things that are visual,
1:00.4	media training, video production, television styling.
1:04.1	So I'm already very geared to everything visual.
1:07.8	And so when COVID hit and we all had to pivot very quickly, nobody really knew what they
1:13.1	were doing with these platforms. You know, you picked one and you learned it and you struggled through
1:18.3	it. And nobody was really concerned about really how they looked. They were really concerned about
1:23.5	how do I, how do I do it technically? Oh, that's technically? Oh, true. Exactly. It really is. I mean,
1:29.8	we were just lucky if we got on, you know, and we didn't have problems, you know, with the
1:35.6	technology. It was very interesting because literally before COVID, I had never done a virtual
1:40.8	meeting. And so, I mean, I've had FaceTime meetings, but I didn't really consider
1:46.7	that a virtual meeting. It was just a FaceTime call. You know, I'm so used to doing video.
1:50.8	And to actually get on a platform and have to manage it and figure out, you know, all the dynamics of
1:57.7	how you're going to look because it is a video medium and people don't realize
2:01.3	that. They just think, oh, nobody can see me. Well, everybody can see you. So I was very resistant
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