Everyone understands online meetings are different but how different? What if you miss a visual cue that you would never miss in real life? It could really affect the outcome or relationship.

Meetings online are more or less compulsory in the COVID-19 world we live in but how to we make the most of it? There are many things to cover in a virtual meeting place that just don’t exist in real life. You need to have enough technical talent, decent internet and a quiet space for a start but what else? Here are some things I’ve seen missed.

KNOW YOUR TOOLS
There are so many online meeting tools out there like Zoom, Google Hangouts and GoToMeeting. Each is slightly different. Know how to host and attend each one. The advantages and disadvantages of each tool could be an article in itself so I won’t focus on that here.

Be particularly careful with Google meetings which automatically puts google hangout meeting details in the invite. More than once, I’ve used that link instead of the actual link intended.

If you have slides or other screen shares during the meeting test these BEFORE the call if possible. Make sure you know how to share these on the platform you are using.

Streaming video tends NOT to work on conference calls tools. They prioritise voice over video.

Fumbling with your tools slows down flow and engagement. For critical meetings, I recommend someone drive the tech (a producer) so you can focus on connecting and your message.

MEETING ETIQUETTE
Have your video ON. It creates intimacy. This is difficult when you are in a place with a “busy” or distracting background. Virtual backgrounds can sometimes help here. Keep in mind different cultures have different expectations around video to others.

MUTE your microphone especially if you are in a noisy location. Do you know how to un/mute using the keyboard? Can you reach your keyboard easily? Is the phone app different to the web version? Can people hear you typing or your pet dog in the background?

Watch or listen carefully to make sure you don’t speak over someone.

Mute your computer alerts (esp pop ups) and phone.

Pre-meeting banter and connection often goes missing online. The lack of physical presence means the co-incidental conversation and small gestures of connection like saying hello in the morning aren’t there. Remembering to connect personally is important.

Online meetings can seem impersonal. Make a special effort to connect with everyone in the meeting. Arriving early is sometimes an option.

PLAN YOUR MESSAGE AND OUTCOME
This is particularly important if you are in a team meeting another group. You can’t rely on your typical non verbal cues to your work mates to the same degree on video. You may even need a 2nd “back channel” using a different tool or app to communicate with your team mates during the meeting. This is especially important if your meeting is a demo or has training involved. You can discuss things like who is understanding or following your message or reminders to do or say something.

Other communication cues can be lost in online meetings. Plan your messaging so it is clear, logical and not too fast.

Keep your messages short and allow people time to think about your message. It increases impact if you can be succinct. If you talk too long, it gives others an excuse to do something on the side.

Have a clear process, agenda and next actions by the end of your meeting

Also, what do you want their experience to be? How will they feel when the meeting concludes? How will you instill trust, rapport and credibility without specifying your title or qualifications? They are the minimum to start the conversation, not the end point.

BEING SEEN AND HEARD
Hands are very important for online meetings. Make sure they can be seen.
It’s important to make sure people can see your hands. They can be very expressive and allow you to imply or emphasise along with your voice. This applies in real life too but it’s easy to forget on video. Adjust your camera position if you can. If you move your laptop away make sure you can still reach the keyboard. It may be time to get an external camera or keyboard to achieve this.

Speak clearly and slowly. Some microphones and speakers are better than others and it’s sometimes harder to hear someone online. This is particularly important if you have an accent or naturally speak fast.

Pick a high contrast background so people can see you

Have adequate lighting

Treat your “window” as a stage not an office. What is in the background? Is it distracting? If presenting, step back from the camera, stand up if you can and remember the “Rule of Thirds”.

SPECIAL NOTE about cameras and close ups

Remember a camera is close to your face. All your facial expressions, even small tiny movements can be seen. Reading faces can be easier to do online.

If you are self conscious about your face on screen, some platforms like Zoom have a “Touch up my appearance” option to slightly blur your face.

IF YOU DO TRAINING ONLINE
Below are some tips for online training that also need to be considered

Plan more breaks and learning outcomes carefully
Use energisers more frequently
2 hour breaks for lunch (for multiday training) works extremely well. It stops people doing things on the side while you are talking.
You need a producer to manage technical issues and the platform in general like break outs
Be willing to be flexible with the group
You need a back channel for side conversations with your producer and other facilitators. (Use often, check often)
Communicate often and clearly with your attendees and facilitator before and during the training. This includes agenda, outcomes and break times
Clearly plan your programming and activities early. Walk it through with your team mates beforehand. It’s hard to have side conversations online even with a back channel
Plan and track your multimedia and transitions beforehand. There’s a delay that can impact flow. It there is a tech issue, the flow is impacted even more.

CONCLUSION
You can make online meetings work. Even training! I did a 3 day Live course online with breakout groups and group exercises last week. You need to plan more up front but I don’t feel it impacts general meetings at all.

Above all, you need to create a sense of connection and belonging. The information may be the reason you are there. It’s the value you create and the way you help people achieve their goals is what is more important. That never changes, no matter what the medium is. Tech can get in the way but it can also bring us together. We just need mastery of this new format like every other technology humanity has invented.

To find out more contact Jon Yeo at bright star

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Hi Angela,

I hope you and all the community at the Digital Women’s Network is keeping well, during this challenging time my team and I have put together a few things to help. This week I’d love to share this with the Digital Women’s Network a FREE Power Webinar [60 minutes] at 6pm (Melbourne time) on Thursday 7th May 2020:

Get in the Game! Rise to the challenge. 

Click on this link to register;

https://event.webinarjam.com/channel/getinthegame

“The whole world has been turned upside down. People are worried, anxious and feeling lost. The game has changed but there is a way forward and it’s time to get going.”

Hopefully it will be a great starting point for future discussion.

Keep well. Stay Safe

Peter xx 

PETER THURIN
Speaker | Mentor | Coach
Mobile: +61 407 568 416
peter@peterthurin.com
P.O. Box 392, Toorak, Victoria 3142, Australia
www.peterthurin.com

Easy to do. Easy not to do. Your choice!®

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We invite you to join us and immerse yourself in new ways of thinking that challenge your current mindset to Lead your organisation through the complexities of change! Learn from Ian and how you as a leader can support your business, staff and shareholders through the ever changing business world. 

Leading your Organisation through the complexities of Change

Ian Williams looks at how human and social capital influences firm operational and financial outcomes, talent management in the context of new ventures and growth-oriented firms, the role of human resource practices in driving firm innovation and the impact of social issues on firm outcomes.

Williamson has worked with executives in over 20 countries across six continents and his research has been published in leading academic journals (e.g. Academy of Management Journal, MIT Sloan Management Review, Organisation Science, Journal of Applied Psychology) and has been covered by leading media outlets across the world.
Here is a clip with Ian on how “Is your organisation approaching corporate responsibility genuinely?”

In New York this November Ian will discuss in detail How to Lead Your Organisation Through the Complexities of Change

• The dramatic shift in the competitive landscape of the last ten years – and the management challenges they present
• Why the greatest threats to firm performance are not commercial issues but social issues
• The key leadership behaviours individuals should adopt in order to manage change and disruption
• How leaders can help their organisations and communities adapt, survive and thrive

Ian’s views on New models, leaders and high performing organisations

Learn cutting edge and innovative ways to build Business success by getting clear on your own ambitions, leadership and business alignment to gain new skills, challenge your current approach and network with business leaders and global thinkers. 

This is a fully immersive experience in this dynamic city which will help you take your Business and personal development to the next level! Join us for 2 days.

Get your tickets- 

2 day Study Tour

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To learn more about the Business Innovation and Leadership New York Study Tour head to https://newyorkstudytour.com

Look forward to seeing you there!

Cheers,

Angela Mellak

Founder Digital Women’s Network

Founder- Digital White Space

M:0466619631

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Hamel has been ranked by The Wall Street Journal as the world’s most influential business thinker and is a fellow of the Strategic Management Society and of the World Economic Forum.

An author of landmark books such as Competing for the Future and The Future of Management, Hamel’s groundbreaking concepts such as “strategic intent,” “core competence,” “industrial revolution,” and “management innovation,” have changed the language and practice of management in organisations around the globe. The Wall Street Journal has ranked Hamel as the world’s most influential business thinker, and Fortune magazine has called him “the world’s leading expert on business strategy.” His latest book, Humanocracy, will be published in December 2018.

Join us and hear from Gary this November as he unpacks- Humanocracy: Rethinking the Principles of Management. Gary will focus on how to;

• Moving beyond competitive advantage to evolutionary advantage: How to change as fast as change itself
• Becoming a truly adaptable company capable of capturing more than your share of tomorrow’s opportunities
• Revealing steps to retool your organisation’s innovation strategy
• Presenting a blueprint for creating organisations that are fully human and free from the shackles of bureaucracy

Hamel has written 17 articles for the Harvard Business Review and is the most reprinted author in the Review’s history. His landmark books have been translated into more than 25 languages. His most recent bestsellers are The Future of Management and What Matters Now. In these volumes, Hamel presents an impassioned plea for reinventing management and lays out a practical blueprint for building organizations that are “fit for the future.” 

Fortune magazine describes Hamel as “the world’s leading expert on business strategy,” and the Financial Times calls him a “management innovator without peer.” Hamel’s groundbreaking concepts such as “strategic intent,” “core competence,” “industry revolution,” and “management innovation,” have changed the language and practice of management in organizations around the globe.  

Hamel’s work inside of organizations has been equally pioneering.  Highlights include:

• Building one of the world’s first “idea markets” inside a global energy leader.
• Using crowdsourcing to help a European high tech company build a game-changing strategy.
• Orchestrating a comprehensive effort to turn a venerable durable goods manufacturer into one of the world’s most innovative companies.
• Helping a leading Korean company re-engineer its management practices around the principles of openness, community and meritocracy.
• Designing and deploying an online platform that allowed the employees of a top fashion house to share and develop ideas for strengthening their company’s core values. 
• Developing innovation tools and platforms that have helped companies around the world de-commoditize mature industries and accelerate growth.
• Running an online “hackathon” in which more than 1,700 senior executives collaborated to reinvent the HR function.

In his work, Hamel has led transformational efforts in some of the world’s most notable companies and has helped to create billions of dollars in shareholder value. 

Hamel is one of the world’s most sought-after management speakers on the topics of strategy, leadership, innovation and change. 

BIO

Hamel has been on the faculty of the London Business School for more than 30 years and is the director of the Management Innovation eXchange. He is a founder of Strategos, an international consulting firm, and director of the Woodside Institute, a non-profit research organization. He has helped numerous companies design and build innovation-friendly management practices, and develop innovation tools and platforms.

Hamel champions the need for a revolution in management and calls for radical innovation in business. He asserts that organizations must continually reinvent themselves, and not just at times of crisis. His groundbreaking concepts such as “strategic intent”, “core competence”, “industry revolution”, and “management innovation” have changed the language and practice of management in organizations around the globe.

Books by Gary Hamel;
What Matters Now: How to Win in a World of Relentless Change, Ferocious Competition, and Unstoppable Innovation (Jossey-Bass, 2012); Strategic Intent (with CK Prahalad, HBR Press, 2010); The Future of Management (with Bill Breen, HBR Press, 2007); Leading the Revolution (HBR Press, 2000); Competing for the Future (with CK Prahalad, HBR Press, 1994).

Garry on Innovation-

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/new-human-movement-gary-hamel

These are a few of your expected outcomes at the New York Study Tour 2019

1-HEARING FROM THE MOST PROGRESSIVE BUSINESS THOUGHT LEADERS OF TODAY – ALL IN THE ONE PLACE IN NEW YORK CITY!

2-LEARNING CUTTING EDGE INNOVATIVE WAYS TO BUILD BUSINESS SUCCESS, GAINING A GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT IN BUSINESS FOR YOUR CAREER AND GROWTH RIGHT NOW!

3-BEING AHEAD OF THE CURVE, ABLE TO ADAPT, INNOVATE AND THRIVE IN TODAY’S EVER CHANGING BUSINESS LANDSCAPE.

4-GETTING CLEAR ON YOUR OWN AMBITIONS, OBJECTIVES AND GOALS AND CREATING STRATEGIES TO

ACHIEVE THAT SUCCESS.

5. -EMBED INSIGHTS AND TAKEAWAYS, NETWORK IN THE WORLDS TOUGHEST CITY, MEET LEADING BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS.

6. IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE IN NEW YORK, TAKE IN THE SIGHTS, LEARN, GROW AND BECOME A LEADER!

Book today to avoid missing your place
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Look forward to seeing you there!

Cheers,

Angela Mellak

Founder Digital Women’s Network

Founder- Digital White Space

M:0466619631

E. hello@digitalwomensnetwork.com

Level 3, 162-168 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 

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This November at New York Study Tour we will hear from Dr Janet Yellen who is an American economist and the first female chair of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System (2014 – 2018). 

Join us and hear her Perspectives on the Future of the Global Economy she will deep dive into;

• The new political and economic challenges facing the world, and the radical solutions needed to resolve them
• Risks and opportunities in the context of a shifting economic and political context
• Analysing the current state of financial markets and what is in store in the future
• Staying competitive and forging growth – an insider’s look at where US economic policy is headed

Throughout her distinguished career at the Federal Reserve, including serving as vice chair of the Board of Governors (2010–2014) and president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco (2004–2010), Dr. Yellen championed for cautious monetary policy and encouraged more transparency and communication in government. Previously, she was a member of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers under President Bill Clinton and an economics professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is a professor emeritus. 

Yellen is a Keynesian economist and advocates the use of monetary policy in stabilizing economic activity over the business cycle. She believes in the modern version of the Phillips curve, which originally was an observation about an inverse relationship between unemployment and inflation.

73 years (13 August 1946) Janet has a net worth of $13 million. Janet Yellen was born in Brooklyn, New York, and graduated from Brown University with a degree in Economics. 

Janet L. Yellen took office as chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System in February 2014, for a four-year term ending February 3, 2018. She was succeeded by Jerome Powell. 

Here is an interview with Dr Janet Yellen at the Yale school of management- 

Janet’s career;

Yellen graduated summa cum laude in economics from Brown University (1967) and received a Ph.D. in economics from Yale University (1971). She then served as an assistant professor of economics at Harvard University until 1976. In 1977–78 she worked as an economist for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and in 1978–80 she served as a lecturer at the London School of Economics and Political Science. In 1980 Yellen joined the faculty of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where she conducted research and taught macroeconomics at all levels, receiving numerous teaching awards. She was appointed Bernard T. Rocca, Jr. Professor of International Business and Trade in 1992 and Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business Administration and Professor of Economics in 1999. She subsequently became professor emeritus at the Haas School of Business.

In 1994 Yellen took a leave of absence from Berkeley to serve as a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, a post she held until 1997. She then left the Fed to become head of Pres. Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisers until 1999. She concurrently chaired the Economic Policy Committee of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Yellen returned to Berkeley in 1999 and taught there until 2004, when she was appointed president of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. She was appointed vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Fed in 2010. Three years later Pres. Barack Obama nominated her as the next head of the Federal Reserve System. There was some controversy surrounding her nomination, mainly because many Republicans believed that she would place too much emphasis on reducing unemployment and not enough on controlling inflation. Nevertheless, in January 2014 she was confirmed by the U.S. Senate by a vote of 56 to 26, the smallest confirmation margin of a head of the Federal Reserve System in history. Her four-year term began on February 3, 2014.

Once in office, Yellen began the process of reversing some of the policies that had been enacted in response to the subprime mortgage crisis of 2008. Notably, she oversaw a program to sell Treasury and mortgage bonds that the Fed had purchased to stimulate the economy. Her tenure was also noted for job and wage growth, both of which occurred while she maintained low interest rates. Yellen left the Fed in February 2018, after Pres. Donald Trump failed to nominate her for a second term. She was succeeded by Jerome H. Powell.

Yellen held an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Brown University and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Bard College. Throughout her academic career, she wrote extensively on a wide variety of topics, particularly macroeconomics and unemployment dynamics. She is married to George A. Akerlof, a cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Economics in 2001.

Interview with Janet;

This is a fully immersive experience in this dynamic city which will help you take your Business and personal development to the next level!

Get your tickets- 

https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/new-york-study-tour-for-business-innovation-leadership-tickets-64647676942

To learn more about the Business Innovation and Leadership New York Study Tour head to 

www.newyorkstudytour.com 

Look forward to seeing you there!

Cheers,

Angela Mellak

Founder Digital Women’s Network

Founder- Digital White Space

M:0466619631

E. hello@digitalwomensnetwork.com

Level 3, 162-168 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 

Gain practical skills and global insights to improve your business or career, there is ONLY HAVE 30 SPACES AVAILABLE – TICKETS SELLING FAST! Invest in your development and join us to Network with a select group of business influencers, c-suite peers lead by Australia’s Global Business Innovator – Tony McGinn OAM.

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HAL GREGERSEN RANKED AS ONE OF THE WORLDS TOP 25 MOST INFLUENTIAL THINKERS, HE IS A PERSUASION EXPERT A PROFESSOR AT THE YALE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE MIT LEADERSHIP CENTRE.

Every company wants to be the next Amazon or Apple, the firm with a permanent spot in the news for its cutting-edge products and a name synonymous with innovation. But it takes a special set of qualities to get there, and Hal Gregersen has dedicated his career to finding out what kind of skills, corporate culture and set of practices produce innovative powerhouses. The crux of Gregersen’s argument, spelled out in his new book “Questions Are the Answer: A Breakthrough Approach to Your Most Vexing Problems at Work and in Life” (Harper Collins, November 2018), builds on 200+ interviews with renowned business, technology, education, government, social enterprise, and artistic leaders. This question-centric project surfaces crucial insights into how leaders build better questions to unlock game-changing solutions. Gregerson is also founder of The 4-24 Project, an initiative dedicated to rekindling the provocative power of asking the right questions in adults so they can pass this crucial creativity skills onto the next generation.

While business leaders and employees alike are programmed to look for answers, the real catalyst for innovative change is questioning. The most successful companies are those that facilitate brainstorming and thinking outside the box. Gregersen has devised a three-step methodology, based on his research on the most innovative leaders and firms in the world, which shows how company cultures can be overhauled and transformed to habitually seek (and produce) pioneering breakthroughs.

Gregersen co-authored, with Clay Christensen and Jeff Dyer, “The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators” (Harvard Business Review Press, 2011), a guide to cultivating the personal skills embodied by the most successful CEOs and entrepreneurs. Having deeply researched and interviewed ground-breaking leaders like Amazon’s Jeff Bezos and P&G’s A.G. Laffey, Gregersen draws on personal experience and rigorous research and analysis to successfully advise the world’s largest corporations. His framework for redesigning a company culture around constructive questioning has been implemented by Chanel, Danone, Disney, Ernst & Young, Fidelity, Genentech and Salesforce, among others.

Digital Women’s Network and Tony McGinn invite you Join them in NYC for the NEW YORK STUDY TOUR and achieve all this and more in 5 days that will help you each year of success in the future. Hal will be working through how Beyond Creativity: to Unlock Innovation.

• The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering five skills of disruptive innovators
• Building a sustainably creative company: Putting people, processes, & philosophies to work
• Catalytic questioning: Daily disciplines to surface the right questions 
• Avoid the leaders dilemma: Why bosses are being told what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear

https://newyorkstudytour.com

Imagine getting a clear perspective on your ambition, defining your business and career objectives and creating strategies to achieve that success all in 5 days!

This New York Study Tour is Jam- Packed Learning, networking, strategy building and gaining insights from the most brilliant minds on the planet !

Phase 1 (pre-tour workshop): Mindset & Mapping your journey. 

Phase 2: Five day Study Tour in New York. Including: Ambition Alignment Workshop; Effective Networking Workshop: Attend the World Business Forum (WOBI) Conference: Business Strategy Masterclass; Leadership Speaking Workshop; and of course sightseeing around NYC and drinking and dining in the most exclusive bars and restaurants this city has to offer.

Phase 3 (post-tour) Refresh & Integration Workshop.

More on Hal
https://www.linkedin.com/in/halgregersen/

Hal Gregersen is a Senior Fellow at Innosight and a former advisory board member at Pharmascience, a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Montreal, Canada. Before joining MIT, he taught at INSEAD, London Business School, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, Brigham Young University, and in Finland as a Fulbright Fellow. A Global Innovator, Hal Gregersen is Executive Director of the MIT Leadership Center and Senior Lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management. Gregerson works with a diverse set of companies to help them master the challenges of innovation and change, from Chanel to IBM to the World Economic Forum.

He also authored The Innovator’s DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators, which assesses how top tier leaders leverage innovation skills to create valuable new products, services, processes, and businesses. As executive director of the MIT Leadership Center, and Senior Lecturer in Leadership and Innovation at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, Gregersen has created a methodology by which corporate leaders can raise their companies’ levels of creative inquiry, unleash the potential of their employees, and make a meaningful impact on their industries and on the world.

Ranked one of the world’s 25 most influential management thinkers by Thinkers50 and winner of the 2017 Distinguished Achievement Award for leadership, Gregersen regularly delivers inspirational keynote speeches, motivational executive seminars and transformational coaching experiences. Along with ten books, Gregersen is the author of more than 50 articles, book chapters, and cases on leading innovation and change (with more than 10,000 citations by other scholars). His research has been highlighted in global media such as BBC, CNN, The Economist, Fast Company, Financial Times, Forbes, Fortune, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Gregersen’s tenure at MIT is the culmination of an illustrious academic journey that has included teaching posts at INSEAD, London Business School, Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business, Brigham Young University, and a Fulbright Fellowship in Finland. Prior to his academic career, Gregersen was an advisory board member at Pharmascience, a Montreal-based pharmaceutical company, and he remains a senior fellow at the global innovation consulting firm Innosight.

I invite you to immerse yourself in new ways of thinking that challenge your current mindset to create competitive advantages. harness a chance to develop an organisational culture that will empower success for years to come. Learn cutting edge and innovative ways to build Business success by getting clear on your own ambitions and business alignment and gain a greater understanding of what is the most important aspects in business right now! 

This is a fully immersive experience in this dynamic city which will help you take your Business and personal development to the next level!

To learn more about the Business Innovation and Leadership New York Study Tour head to 

www.newyorkstudytour.com 

Look forward to seeing you there!

Cheers,

Angela Mellak

Founder Digital Women’s Network

Founder- Digital White Space

M:0466619631

E. hello@digitalwomensnetwork.com

Level 3, 162-168 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 

Gain practical skills and global insights to improve your business or career, there is ONLY HAVE 30 SPACES AVAILABLE – TICKETS SELLING FAST! Invest in your development and join us to Network with a select group of business influencers, c-suite peers lead by Australia’s Global Business Innovator – Tony McGinn OAM.

Learn more at https://newyorkstudytour.com

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Join us in New York this November to meet the World’s Leading Minds and set yourself and your business up for success. This high-energy professional development event is for budding Leaders, C-Suite Executives, CEOs, Business Owners, and Directors.

Learn from the World’s most Innovative and Progressive Minds in the most competitive City on the Planet. This exclusive and fully immersive experience will expand your thinking and evoke new strategies for growth. Most Importantly, we’re curating an experience that is specifically focused on YOU, your business and your personal goals.

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LEADERSHIP SPEAKING WITH ILLUMINATED STORY & DIGITAL WOMEN’S NETWORK

Wednesday 21st August 2019 we held Part one of our three part public speaking breakfast series, which was a great success.  Our guests were spoilt with a delicious breakfast provided by Guy Grossi’s Merchant team while listening to Carmen Sederino from Illuminated Story impart many great tips and techniques that will enhance our guests speaking ability as leaders in business.

Carmen shared that a recent study found that 79% of people surveyed find presentations to be boring. And it’s true. How many of us haven’t struggled to sit through dreary and passionless presentations? It happens all too often.   

If you’re the leader of an organisation or team and you don’t come across as a confident and articulate speaker, it will be difficult for you to attract people to be a part of your team or have customers do business with you.  She also discussed the fact that public speaking is a skill you can learn, not just something you are born being great at.  If you’re challenged by public speaking, there are several techniques that can help you overcome your fears.

The presentation concluded with Carmen sharing many great practical tips and exercises that emphasised the importance of tone, pace and body language, to help the group hone and polish their hidden skills and Illuminate the presenter inside them.

If it is fear that is holding you back, it may offer some comfort to know that Carmen mentioned even business magnate and billionaire Warren Buffett admitted to being “terrified” of public speaking early in his career. But he knew that “If you can’t communicate and talk to other people and get across your ideas, you’re giving up your potential”. And, so he chose to conquer his fear. You can, too! 

Join us at one of our two remaining Breakfast Series on public speaking.  If you lead a B2B sales team or are the owner of an organisation the next ‘Improve Your Sales Presenting’ breakfast on the 11^th of September is perfect for you.  Hosted by the wonderful team at Guy Grossi’s Merchant in the Rialto tower, Carmen will not only share techniques to enhance your presentation delivery but take you through a ‘standard’ sales presentation versus a highly effective ‘stand out’ sales presentation.

If you are a female leader or a female wanting to head into leadership then don’t miss our ‘Leading Women and Speaking’ breakfast on the 25^th of September at Guy Grossi’s Merchant.  Carmen will challenge you to stand up and be seen and heard, and to move forward confidently so that you allow others to follow you, or for Senior Management to see the potential lying within.

We looking forward to seeing you soon at our next event or tour,
Cheers Digital Women’s Network Team; Carmen, Angela, Nicola, Amanda, Jesse, Bek, Kelly, Carmel, Hina, Jade, Ruby, Justin & Adrian. xx
hello@digitalwomensnetwork.com 

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I’m delighted to share my latest sit down with Jon Yeo on the topic of Leadership and where it is heading before our next Sold out event 29th August 2018 on The Future of Leadership Empowering Success and Happiness.

• Jon’s Bio- Jon Yeo – Curator & Speaker coach https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonyeo/
• Jon Yeo is an executive speaker coach helping leaders to articulate complex concepts, in short periods of time, to busy or distracted people. Jon has developed a quantifiable framework for engagement and impact.

Jon, how do you see society supporting female leaders?

• “We dont. There is an unconscious bias that skews everything we see. An awareness needs to be made. Strong leaders of either gender should be aware and manage this”

What do you think makes an incredible female leader- what are the traits?

• It is exactly the same as a male leader. Integrity, empathy, capability. The DIFFERENCE is that women should feel they should become men to be a great leader. There are many female traits that should be used to their advantage eg inclusiveness, sensitivity to diversity and difference

Which Women can you call out Globally that you see is making a difference?

•  Elanor Roosevelt, Joan of Arc, Ellen, Oprah, Emma Watson. Pretty much anyone who put their hand up for #metoo

I see much unhappiness in younger people today – transfixed in social media and focused on their tiny mobile world- What in your opinion needs to change?

• I see both sides actually. People empowered by their unhappiness. We had a speak on stage talking about embracing what you hate. The only thing that needs to change is an awareness of growth mindset. There has always been good and bad in the world

How can these younger people find a new perspective and eventually happiness?

I think there’s not a lot of time for silence and still needs. Adults in the western world are only just starting to understand this. Kids havent had the chance to get that skill yet. When you are still you get perspective. Perspective changes everything (football example?)

How do you define success?

• The progressive realisation of a worthy ideal

Anything else you would like to add or share Jon?

“29th August should be fun, I’m sure we will cover these in more detail and many more questions about the Future of Leadership with Digital Women’s Network.

On the 13th October I am really looking forward to taking your members on a bootcamp learning how to “Present and Pitch on 13th October 2018”

https://vimeo.com/285695431

To get people more across the types of things they can expect from the day, please see this recent video Jon did for Officeworks on Pitching

Looking forward to seeing you there,

Many thanks,

Angela Mellak MCIM

Judge for Anthill 2018 Top 100 Innovative Companies.

Top 10 LinkedIn influencer 2017

Director and Strategist – Digital White Space

Co-founder – Digital Womens Network

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