Engaging Virtual Meetings Podcast with John Chen

Phil Mershon is director of experience for Social Media Examiner, where he helps lead Social Media Marketing World. He’s also a jazz saxophonist and the author of the upcoming book Unforgettable: the Art and Science of Creating Memorable Experiences.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

🤔 Experiences that shaped Phil when doing a virtual event

⛪ How has his experience as a worship pastor influenced him today

🫱‍🫲 Well-designed meetings vs. disaster meetings in the past 2 years

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Presented on 11/9/2022 Liz Caruso's techsytalk GLOBAL Day 1.

Google did 18-months of research on what do their high-performing teams have in common?  #1 - Psychological Safety.  Your virtual meetings are exactly the same.  Psychological safety will help the #1 virtual challenge of engagement.  When your attendees feel safe, they will engage.  People will chat, unmute and talk and even turn their camera on if they feel safe.  Let John Chen share 10 quick tips to make your virtual attendees feel comfortable and engage.

He’s the author of the #1 Amazon Hot New Book Release, Engaging Virtual Meetings.  He’s been meeting virtually for over 35 years.  He has produced over 4,000 virtual meetings including an EIGHT language meeting and the only 100% LIVE virtual conference in the training industry. Let’s WELCOME your speaker, John Chen.

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Meet Olivia Vanessa Baumgart, engaging virtual karaoke fan, Navy veteran and about to publish a book.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

😨  Zoom filter failures

🛳️  Olivia’s Navy background

💭  What she thinks is the future of virtual meeting

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Kassy LaBorie is a Master Virtual Classroom Trainer and the Original Virtual Training Hero, on a mission to rid the world of boring slide reading lectures and passive live online participants! 

She’s the principal at Kassy LaBorie Consulting, training trainers to be virtual trainers around the globe each day! 

In this episode, we discuss the following:

😍 Kassy’s background story

⭐️ Highlight moments shifting from in-person to virtual

🖥️  New emerging tech in the few years

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Realizing that the lives of thousands of homeless people were being wasted on the streets, Tiger Todd took it upon himself to do something about it. He retired from the electronics company he founded and discovered his true calling by motivating people toward the lives they were meant to live. And many thousands have changed.

Two decades later, Tiger is a leading expert in human engagement, motivation, and accelerated learning, pioneering the modern hero movement and hundreds of strategies used by public schools, higher education, and myriad businesses, agencies, and non-profit organizations.

Tiger’s Hero School® model introduced a new philosophy and psychological framework to social problems, bridging movies, math, and mythology to real people for real-world outcomes.

From the multiple companies he’s founded to the hundreds of schools, businesses and organizations he has helped advance, Tiger lives by the wisdom of Emerson: “Everyone is my superior is some way; in that I learn from him.”

In Tiger’s real-life movie model, every role is essential and no person is any less valuable.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

🦸‍♂️  Helping people through Hero School® 

😎 Transforming people’s lives through online 

🎬  Life lessons learned through movies

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Kathleen Wisemandle is the founder and principal of Aspire to Grow, Leadership Coaching, and Consulting.

With over 30 years in the biotech and pharma industry, she works as a fractional operations leader to help small biotechnology and pharma companies strategically plan for IND and early phase studies to optimize execution and decision-making toward further funding and proof of safety and efficacy.

With experience in portfolio planning, operational leadership, operational efficiency, vendor selection/oversight, site management, and risk identification and management, she works with companies to strategically plan to deliver quality results on time and within budget.  

In addition, as a certified coach and believer in the power of the good in humans, she works with individual executives and non-executives through reflection of core values and strengths to find a meaningful path.

In this episode, we discuss the following:

🏆 Kathleen’s successes and failures that she learned while working remotely

👩‍💻 How to improve your setup to get better meetings 

😱 Best and worst virtual meetings Kathleen had 

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Debbie Rosemont is a Productivity Consultant, Trainer and Coach who helps busy professionals prioritize what matters, plan their time to include those priorities and produce desired results with greater ease. 

In this episode, we discuss the following:

💡 What are useful and productive meetings

🔗 How to feel connected

👩 In-person versus virtual

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Catharine O'Leary is an economist, entrepreneur, and investor who is passionate about helping businesses grow. She is also the quiz queen, always asking the best questions to attract the best clients for herself and her clients. Catharine has achieved success in her own right spending the last 25 years perfecting her market research and consumer insights expertise in the corporate world. 

Now she is most motivated by helping others apply innovative marketing strategies that make it easier for your ideal clients to find you. Especially if you are a speaker, podcaster, author or coach!

In this episode, we discuss the following:

💫 Find your destiny 

🔑 One key thing Catharine learned from Pepsi

😍 Best quiz she wrote

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Sheri E Betts, MBA, CPA, PCC, ODCP, has been helping people practice better self-care for over twenty years. As a PCC-credentialed life and executive coach, and certified organization development professional, she is committed to making a difference in the world – one person at a time, one organization at a time. 

In this episode, we discuss the following:

🧘‍♀️ Why focus on self-care

💯 The importance of self-care in virtual

👍 Best virtual meeting moments

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Andrea Driessen is a career entrepreneur, thought leader, 3x award-winning business book author, speaker-bureau veteran, owner of 4 registered trademarks, and copywriter. She has dedicated her career to helping companies, nonprofits, and teams become more communicative, effective, and capable. 

In this episode, we discuss the following:

😲 Andrea Driessen talked about her almost 1.5 million views TED Talk.

📝 The idea behind the "living eulogies."

👩‍💻 Favorite ways to meet and engage audiences online

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