If you're like us – and I believe most people – you can't wait to send 2020 packing. And you may well be planning to do it in style! So, toodle-oo. Goodbye. Good riddance, 2020. One great way to leave this miserable mess of months behind and not drag it with us into the shiny new year is to steer clear of the coronavirus. You know the drill: mask [...]
Big news in the world of video conferencing: Eric Yuan, founder and CEO of Zoom, has been named Time Magazine’s Businessperson of the Year for 2020. Zoom, which saw its daily meeting participants rise from 10 million to 300 million per day in April following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, has steadfastly become the go-to video conferencing platform for people all over the world, and in ways [...]
Teresa Harris is a personal trainer and taught many types of fitness classes including Body Pump, CXWORX, and freestyle step, all on-premises in gyms and fitness centers around Charlottesville, Virginia starting over two decades ago. Then, in March of 2020, just like after a class when everyone leaves winded but energized, COVID turned off the lights and shut the doors. Teresa Harris suddenly had no place to train [...]
The Center at Belvedere, a Charlottesville, Virginia senior center was right on the brink of opening the doors to its brand new facility when the COVID-19 outbreak hit effectively padlocking those doors shut. You can watch the video interview above with or without subtitles, or read this transcript (edited for clarity and flow): Carolyn Merrick, Program Coordinator. Bio and [...]
Anyone who uses Zoom by now knows the pain of having to flip around between apps while you’re in a meeting. The annoyance of having to flip from your Zoom meeting to that document folder, agenda, and chats is all too real (and just another contributor to Zoom fatigue). Wouldn’t it be much easier if all the apps just talked to each other and showed up in one [...]
For most people, there are not enough diversions from the diversions these days. In this digital age, people have become accustomed to high-quality streaming, flicking from one streaming service to another with the click of the remote. Guest post by Geraldine Ree. Bio and website below. If you’re hosting a virtual consumer event, competing with all these distractions can be a challenge. The bar is either [...]
If the average leader were to take every meeting on their calendar and cut the time in half, they would free up more than three hours per week. In a company with 100 people, that’s close to 8 weeks of time regained for deeper, more productive work. So, how do we get there? Guest post by Geraldine Ree. Bio and website below. We’ve learned that online [...]
Leading from home has undergone a radical transformation. It shifted from a nice-to-have to a must-have, and everything has changed. Enter the pandemic, and we know that women with children are struggling. According to Harvard Business Review, a whopping one in four women are considering downsizing their careers because of the strains remote work is putting on them. Guest post by Geraldine Ree. Bio and website below. [...]
Tis the season! With many major holidays coming up, it’s time to get in gear and make some plans to celebrate. With social distancing still happening and with the recent rise in COVID-19 cases, some or all of those events will probably happen virtually. But with the prolific Zooming that’s been going on since March, your family and friends (and you) are likely experiencing some serious Zoom fatigue [...]
First, there was there was the overnight switch from in-person to virtual meetings. There were over 1 billion Google searches for “working from home,” and webcams were sold out everywhere for months. Slowly, people have begun to return to the office, but room restrictions and personal safety concerns created a third alternative called the "hybrid" meeting. Guest post by Geraldine Ree. Bio and website below. A [...]
