Featuring Special Guest Lachandra Baker Lachandra Baker is the director of Employee Engagement at a health care company. During the third week of COVID in March 2020, she was tasked with moving a full two-day, live employee onboarding into a virtual one– with only a week to plan. In this interview with Ruth Milligan, hosted […]
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If you are giving a virtual presentation, leading a virtual workshop, facilitating a virtual team meeting, or any combination of these, there’s a person you will need. A virtual producer. Or if that term is too fancy – a virtual helper. As you deliver, train, teach, sell, or facilitate, there’s only one thing you can
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Welcome to Articulation’s new podcast, Do Tell Virtually. In this learning series, our expert speech communication coaches and trainers Ruth Milligan and Acacia Duncan reveal the new norms and rules for speaking, teaching, selling or training virtually. As you know, we love stories. So, in Do Tell, we’ll share the stories of people who are
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So you want to host a virtual event with recorded* speakers? Situation: You want to host a semi-live or on-demand virtual event showcasing speakers and their presentations. This means you will need them to record themselves in advance. Question: How do you get the recording from them, especially if they are either socially distancing or
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I simply have one question for you today. Why are we on so many video chats? With the spread of COVID-19 and the stay-at-home orders many of us are under, to say video conferencing is booming would be an understatement. Zoom said daily users spiked to 200 million in March, up from 10 million in
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Ruth Milligan is back with another tip from the treehouse. And this time, it’s a survival tip on how to get through our new COVID-19 existence on virtual webinars and calls. Watch Ruth for three best practices and a demonstration that can help you conduct a better virtual meeting. She’ll share: 1. How to frame
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Dear friends and colleagues, The world feels a bit upside down now. To everyone who is experiencing illness or economic upheaval, our hearts are with you. If you are like us, you’re trying to juggle new challenges– from home schooling to finding out where toilet paper is in stock, while keeping yourself and your loved ones
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Our Ruth Milligan is back with tips from the treehouse. We’ve been preparing a lot of clients for pitches lately. And we’ve also had clients deal with canceled events and meetings. The good news (yes, there is good news) is that you don’t have to be in-person to communicate. And while new business pitches are
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Dear Friends: Our thoughts are with those families who are personally impacted by the Coronavirus. While news of events being cancelled due to the virus make headlines, let us offer you some positive communication options during this time of uncertainty. Remember, you still have something to communicate even if you may not be able to
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In the last few years, I’ve found myself at the interesting intersection of supporting a leader who needs to evolve into an influential speakers, and the corporate communications team that has responsibility for speech writing and feeding that same executive messaging to deliver. I shared a tip on this in this video recently, but I
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