Episode 259: How to have better meetings on Zoom
During zoom calls, are you guilty of holding your phone up to our camera to try and show what you are seeing? In today's episode, Fiona shares a quick tip to avoid this. Tune in!
Topics discussed in this episode:
Introduction
Tips to have better meetings on Zoom
Conclusion
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Welcome to episode 259 of the My Daily Business Coach podcast. My name's Fiona Killackey, I'm your host, and today is a quick tip episode, where I share a tip, tool, or tactic that you could implement immediately in your business. Before I do that, I want to acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of the beautiful lands in which I live and record this podcast. And that is the Wurrung and Wurundjeri people of the Kulin nation. And I pay my respects to their elders, past, present, and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded. I also welcome and pay my respects to any other indigenous or Torres Strait Islander people who might be listening in. Welcome. Let's get into today's quick tip episode.
A while ago, I think it was sometime in early October, I put out an episode about 10 things you did not know or may not know that you could do on Zoom. Zoom, obviously everyone's familiar with it because of the pandemic, but we were using Zoom many years ago. We jumped to that instead of Skype for coaching. All of the coaching that I do is remote. It always has been that way, and that is in line with the values and beliefs that I have and how I want to work and live in my life. But one thing that you may not know that you are able to do on Zoom that I thought I would talk about today is to literally screen share your iPad or your phone. If you are on, say, a work call and people are talking about something they saw on Instagram or something they saw on Pinterest, what often happens is we end up finding it on our phone.
I have done this too and then held my phone up to my camera to try and show what I am seeing. Now, this is a problem because one, it's really small. Two, you can't necessarily always see depending on reflection, and maybe you've got a window in your office. It can be really difficult to show that. You will end up sort of saying to people, get your phone out and go into Instagram and look at this account. That's what I'm talking about. But you're not all looking at it together. And then of course, once people are on Instagram, it's a rabbit hole. One thing that you might want to do is to literally just share your phone. Literally, mirror your phone whilst you're on a Zoom call. Now, the way that you can do this is, there are two ways.
One, you can literally just connect your phone to the computer, and then once you are in a Zoom call, you literally press share and it'll come up with a bunch of different things. One of those will be iPhone, and iPad sharing. Now, for some people that might be in basic sharing, for others, you'll need to go to the advanced tab once you open your share screen. But that's one way you can literally just connect it through a cord to your computer and it'll show up that way. The other way is you can just mirror it. All that means is the first time you do this, you'll need to put in a code that comes up on your computer once you hit the mirror, and then it'll give it the computer that Zoom access to your phone and what's on it. And that one can be such a good way, either one, it can be such a good way to actually show people what you mean.
Now, this can work not just for social media or Pinterest or things like that, but also for showing people, say you might work in web design or maybe you don't work in web design, but you're working with a web designer and maybe they're remote. You might be showing, "Okay, it looks fine on a desktop, but when I go into my mobile view this and this isn't working," or I'd really like the button to be up here, or maybe you're on an iPad and similar things, I'd really like everything above the fold, or this image seems to be really blurry when I look at it on this particular tablet or device. It's such a useful tool, and it's one that I haven't been using as much as I should. I'm very guilty of just pulling something up on my phone and then showing the screen of my phone up to the camera on my computer.
But I do notice at least, it's kind of bad to admit, but as people know, I watch a Reality TV show and I'm not afraid to say it. One of those shows that I watch is Catfish. Yes, I've been watching it from day one. I loved the movie Documentary Catfish. If you haven't seen it such a good one, even all these years later, it must be like, 10, 12 years older. Anyway, Catfish, like everyone else had to deal with the pandemic. Instead of the people that the hosts going and investigating and turning up on people's doorsteps and knocking on their door and being like, how dare you? You fooled this person for four years in a romantic relationship. But one thing I noticed was that they had to do it on Zoom. They had to do these calls, they were getting people to literally share their phone, to share photos, to share text messages.
That's the first time that I think I saw this and then it didn't necessarily click that I should be doing that on my Zoom calls. But it has clicked in the last sort of six to eight months, and I've started using it a lot more. And it's just such a great way to show people what you mean. Whilst you have to maybe work remotely or work from home or maybe work with somebody who's in a different country or a different state, such a quick way to express what you're feeling and showing things like maybe you were at a photo shoot or maybe you took some photos for a photo shoot and you want to put it in a mood board. It's so much easier to just bring that up on your phone and mirror that screen on a Zoom call rather than trying to go a clunky way of showing it on your screen and then holding your phone or your iPad up to the camera on your computer.
I really hope that it's been helpful. It's such an easy simple thing, but I think like so many of these platforms, you join them, you start using them, and then you just get used to the way that you use them, and you don't look at all the other functionalities that they may have. If you have missed the Zoom Longer coaching session where I talk about the 10 things that you may not know you can do on Zoom, you can go back and find that it's literally Episode 244. You can find it at mydailybusinesscoach.com/podcast/244. But if you have listened to that one, and then you needed a bit more of a way that you could use Zoom, and I promise I'm not being sponsored by Zoom, I hope that today's episode is all about mirroring your iPad or your iPhone whilst you're on a call, is really helpful.
Whether you are redesigning a website, whether you're coming up with a mood board for a photo shoot, or whether you're just looking at some cool Instagram stuff that you want to share with your team, you can do that literally by mirroring your iPad or iPhone on Zoom when you're on a call by hitting the share button and then clicking the iPad iPhone connection tab that's open there. Thank you so much for listening. If you'd rather look at this in text format with the step-by-step breakdowns and any links to things, you can find that at mydailybusinesscoach.com/podcast/259. Thanks so much for listening. I'll see you next time. Bye.
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