Good morning and welcome to our workshop on body language and communication in a video meeting "Fear and Loathing in my Webcam!".

My name is Michael Oberther – I’m with Supporting Strategies NYC – we are a virtual bookkeeping and controller team here in NYC. We have been providing 100% virtual bookkeeping and controller services for 7 years.

We have found that using video calls with our clients to be critically important.
Jumping on a video call with a client to discuss their invoices, collections, bills and revenue for the month makes the experience much more personal and helps develop strong working relationships.
https://www.supportingstrategies.com/nyc-midtown

When the lock down started, we realized that being on video would be new to many of our networking friends. So we partnered with an outstanding soft skills and presentation coach so we could show as many people as possible how to get better and feel more comfortable about using video.

Our Presenter- Founder of Read Leaf Consulting Stacee Mandiville
http://www.redleafcoaching.com/

She’s part coach, part motivational speaker, and part mentor, Stacee has coached business executives across the globe since 1999. Her unique skill set and point of view from a classical theater background, combined with her many years of coaching executives ( listening to their fears, hopes, and dreams), led her to develop the Red Leaf Coaching methodology focused on a super “sticky” soft skills coaching style that is engaging, entertaining, practical, and as "concrete" as soft skills can get.

Topics will cover:
• Whatchoo lookin at?: the do’s and don'ts of body language and voice on camera

• Tips from an actress: how to look/sound better on camera and decrease self-consciousness

• Wish you were here: little things to make the experience as close to face to face as possible

• Can you hear me now?: the top tech snafus and how to fix them

• Putting on your game face: recognizing and mitigating stress in these challenging times

Benefits of participating in this webinar include:

• A decrease in overall anxiety of being on-camera, while increasing confidence

• Being able to developing more efficient video meetings

• Strengthen your personal brand

• You will become indispensable as the video pro on your team. This will be critical in the days ahead