Do Tell: Virtually

Today we are talking careers with Shelly Stotzer, owner of Crosworks Career and Talent Strategists. We reached out to Shelly to find out how the landscape of career search and interviews are changing in this new virtual landscape. Shelly has more than 20 years of executive leadership and coaching experience. Her expertise across business disciplines gives her a deep knowledge of the working work and a unique perspective. 

00:08 The Intro: Shelly Stotzer

02:02 What has changed in interviewing in a virtual world?

04:14: What are new techniques to prepare fir a virtual interview?

06:01: Other things to think about about as you prepare for a virtual interview?

07:39: What about the interviewer?

09:30: More things to consider for a successful virtual interview

10:38: What's your hope for the future?

14:25: Prepare to know yourself: How to begin the process

18:49: Does being scared, or fearful, change how you look for a job?

23:40: The Wrap

When you are speaking, facilitating, teaching, or leading on a virtual platform, there is a lot to pay attention to. Technology doesn't need to be one of them. Utilizing a producer to help take care of the technical elements can help your virtual events and meetings run smoothly. Mo Davari, an IT expert, joins us to talk about his role as a producer and how you can prepare yourself so technology is the last thing you need to worry about. 

 

00:08: The Intro

01:56: Preparing for an online event from a technical standpoint

02:54: Specific technical advice for virtual sessions

04:41: What do speakers need to make a successful event

06:23: How do you view your roll 

08:48: How to deal with presenter nervousness

09:40: It takes a team

11:08: The Wrap

Melinda Church works with GGA as their lead on strategic communications, working with dozens of healthcare systems, universities, private K-12 schools and foundations and others in the social sector. Her work is largely in partnering to make the case for philanthropy through proposals, cases, pitch, decks, and events that radically changed and suddenly changed with everything else in March.

00:08: The Intro

03:47: How to cultivate major donors virtually

06:49: Finding out where they are today

07:57: What's the prospect to building a relation with new donors

16:00: Making the ask

19:33: What happened before still happens

25:30: What comes next? What's the new norm?

31:00: The Wrap

 

When COVID 19 hit and students were sent home, elementary school teachers were among the most challenged to provide both learning and engagement to the our youngest students. But more importantly, the transition to supporting their social emotional needs became a daily struggle. In this episode, we walk through the inspiring and sometimes heartbreaking stories of one teacher, Michelle Schroeder-Lowrey, who as a music, movement and theater teacher had to find extra creative ways to adjust her class content and deliveries.

00:10 - The Intro: Michelle Schroedeer-Lowrey

01:49 - Chapter 1: Moving from live to virtual 

03:39 - Chapter 2: Digging deeper in social emotional needs

05:57 - Chapter 3: Help for parents struggling

07:14 - Chapter 4: Moment in COVID time that sticks with you?

09:57 - Chapter 5: Meeting students outside the class with facetime

15:08: The Wrap: What do you say to the teachers out there?

 

Meredith Kaganovskiy is a certified meeting professional and Senior Project Manager of the DIA Global Annual Meeting. Meredith is passionate about creating experiences and environments that give individuals opportunities to learn and connect with each other and has designed conferences for domestic and international nonprofit associations since 2004.  

DIA is the Drug Information Association and has provided the world's largest global, neutral stage for life science professionals to come together and address healthcare challenges. The Global Annual Meeting brings together patients, industry, regulators, and academia from all angles of the product lifecycle, from more than 50 countries.

00:14 – Chapter One: The Intro: Meredith and the DIA

02:08 – Chapter Two: Major Conferences Going Virtual

02:50 – Chapter Three: Why Pivot to Virtual

08:49 – Chapter Four: Different Styles of Virtual Presentation

12:18 - Chapter Five: The Data in a Virtual Event

14:13 – Chapter Six: The Pivot of Speakers

18:50 – Chapter Seven: Concept of a virtual speaker ready room

21:33 - Chapter Eight: The Big Question: Will you go back to live?

22:58 – Chapter Nine: Advice on pivoting a large conference to virtual

24:09 – Chapter Ten: Keeping true to original conference

30:47 – The Wrap

Meredith Kaganovskiy is a certified meeting professional and Senior Project Manager of the DIA Global Annual Meeting. Meredith is passionate about creating experiences and environments that give individuals opportunities to learn and connect with each other and has designed conferences for domestic and international nonprofit associations since 2004.

On this episode of DoTell Virtually, Acacia Duncan talks Julia Guichard, a voice coach and instructor, who is also the a Chair and Chief Departmental Officer for the Miami University Theatre Department, about how to get the best out of your voice.

00:09 – Chapter 1: The Intro: Julia Guichard

04:17 – Chapter 2: Habits that aren't helping your voice

08:10 – Chapter 3: Creating good habits to help your voice

13:44 – Chapter 4: Exercises for relaxing your voice

18:55 – Chapter 5: Creating a routine for your voice

23:13 – Chapter 6: Now you want to communicate, where to put yourself

27:51 – Chapter 7: The Wrap: three take-a-ways

Abby Sturges is a Leadership Development Consultant, Facilitator, and Coach. She joins Ruth Milligan in a lively conversation about the strategies we use to initially engage virtual audiences. How do we "stoke" their attention when so many distractions are waiting our consumption. They discuss a wide array of both intentions and tactics, readily available to all virtual speakers, teachers, and trainers.

00:08 – Chapter 1: Welcome Abby

02:00 – Chapter 2: Developing Stokes Blog Post

03:55 – Chapter 3: Importance of first 90 seconds in a virtual meeting

06:15 – Chapter 4: Favorite 5 minute stokes

10:09 - Chapter 5: Benefits of Stokes

13:32 – Chapter 6: When Stokes go badly

17:16 –Chapter 7: The Wrap

 

In this episode of Do Tell Virtually, Acacia Duncan talks with Liv Gjestvang, Associate Vice President, Learning Technology, from the Office of Distance Education and eLearning at The Ohio State University. They discuss pivoting to learning online within two weeks during the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis: what went wrong, what went right, other lessons learned, and how they're preparing for the fall semester.

 

00:08 – Chapter 1: Pre-Covid Duties

02:55 – Chapter 2: Pivot during the extended spring break

05:56 – Chapter 3: Triage for teaching: Standing up a suite of four websites

07:46 – Chapter 4: Learning from the front lines

09:15 - Chapter 5: Synchronous vs Asynchronous Learning

11:57 – Chapter 6: Fostering connections using Zoom

14:15 – Chapter 6: Creating empathy in virtual world

18:20 – Chapter 7: Preparing for the future of virtual learning

22:06 – Chapter 8: Thoughts on designing a successful on-line experience

25:57 – Chapter 9: The Wrap

Any person who will be delivering a virtual talk, presentation, lecture, lesson or training will likely be asked to video record it for asynchronous (on demand) delivery. But what if you don't have a video studio to use and have never recorded anything before? In this episode, Brant Jones, lifelong video editor, didn't know he'd put his USC Film degree to work by sharing the dos and don'ts for producing a good video out of your home office, living room or yes, even kitchen.

00:08 Chapter 1: Introduction

02:10 Chapter 2: Standards for getting a great recording

06:16 Chapter 3: Leveling up with sound and lighting

10:30 Chapter 4: Using Green Screens

13:52 Chapter 5: Using Box Lights

15:45 Chapter 6: Horizontal or vertical for recording

16:37 Chapter 7: Using slides with Zoom

18:27 Chapter 8 : Find your camera lens and using a teleprompter app

20:33 Chapter 9: The Wrap