Whats Irritating to Others When Using Video - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Whats Irritating to Others When Using Video - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career In recent years Ive polled hundreds of people about their work in the digital age. Last week I wrote about whats irritating to people about cellphones. This week, its whats irritating about video? When people: -don’t acknowledge others on the other side of the monitor -constantly look bored or continuously check their cell phone -don’t speak up -use cell phones to call which is usually a poorer connection -join in late -don’t set up pre-call arrangements and end up having to spend call time dealing with equipment or call setup issues -invite too many people to get on the video -have poor backlighting and contrast -talk louder than necessary -are not aware of their body language -don’t smile -have a background that is too busy or distracting -on the other end start multi-tasking -talk over others -don’t mute their phone when appropriate -move excessively in and out of view -make statements like, “I know you probably can’t see this” but then goes on to explain a graph or picture without giving details along with the point, i.e. “as you see here the numbers are…” versus “this graph shows a 30% growth rate” -don’t pay attention, fidget with laptop and cell phones -only speak to folks in the room not the people on the other side of the monitor too -talk all over each other because of time delay -are obviously having private side conversations -don’t look at the camera; act stiffly around it -shuffle papers noisily -do not pay attention to personal appearance -don’t operate the data systems correctly -eat or drink while on the call -use too much hand gesturing Now that you are reminded, reframe from doing the above!