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How To Create Conversations That Matter
Many many years ago, Kate and I, my wife quit our jobs and took 3 months off to essentially be homeless traveling around the United States. We stayed with friends, friends of friends used national parks as sort of checkpoints throughout. And we are in Sequoia National...
Can I Share My iPad Screen In Zoom
Hey y'all. Tech day. I wore my tech t-shirt from a visit to Facebook headquarters many moons ago. Do you know that they give you free ice cream at Facebook headquarters? Although everybody's working remotely. I'm not really sure how it's working. Anyway, today, can I...
How To Build TRUST On Your Website
Hey! What's up? Chad here and I've got my space t-shirt on because we're going to talk about how to build trust in cyberspace. In particular, how do you build trust on a website? And for this video, I'm going to do something a little bit unusual compared to most of...
How To Do Virtual Team Building On A Remote Team
How to Do Virtual Team Building on a Remote TeamHow to Do Virtual Team Building on a Remote Team Low-prep Activities You Can Use to Connect When you think about building relationships with coworkers, you might imagine that happening in person. But many of us now work...
How To Run A Successful Virtual Meeting
How To Run A Successful Virtual MeetingHow to Run a Successful Virtual Meeting Increase Engagement from the Unofficial Start to the Purposeful End of Your Session This chapter is based on my 50th video tutorial focusing on how to make virtual engagement and connection...
How To Have FUN At Work While Staying PRODUCTIVE
How to Have Fun at Work While Staying ProductiveHow to Have Fun at Work While Staying Productive 3 Practical Strategies for Mixing Things Up The billionaire Richard Branson once said, “If it’s not fun, it’s not worth doing.” In fact, he wrote a book, The Virgin Way,...
How To Change The Topic Of Conversation
I have a friend and mentor who is known as the Master of Segways. In this video, I'm excited to share how he would change the topic of conversation. Because oftentimes you might be in a conversation and it's not... You're not really feeling it. And you want to shift...
How To Keep Virtual Teams CONNECTED
How To Keep Virtual Teams ConnectedHow To Keep Virtual Teams Connected Three Strategies You Can Employ in Your Next Online Meeting Will Wise and I exist on the planet to make connection and engagement easy for leaders and educators—online and offline. This is what we...
Why Is It Important To BUILD TRUST With Customers
As somebody that helps organization and universities amplify a culture of connection belong and trust, I wanted to unpack and film a video on the question of "Why is it important to build trust with customers?" Really excited to be joining you in this video to share...
How To Improve Lack Of Communication In The Workplace
In this video, I'm going to take all of my work consulting with hundreds of top universities and companies on how to make connection easy and smooth the process of communication. I'm going to share 4 really concrete steps that you can take immediately after watching...
Do’s And Don’ts Of Virtual Meetings
Dos and Don’ts of Virtual MeetingsDos and Don’ts of Virtual Meetings 7 Pitfalls and Best Practices for Gathering Remotely You know and have likely experienced the unique challenges associated with not being able to meet in person. But there are incredible...
How Not To Be BORING In A Conversation
How to not be boring in a conversation? That would be a good thing not to be. I'm Chad. I'm the co-author of Ask Powerful Questions Create Conversations That Matter. And in this video, we're going to talk about how to not be boring in conversation. Let's get into it....
Why Is Corporate Culture Important To A Company’s Success
75 of U.S employees will leave their job within 5 years of being there. That is really expensive for a company. And that is why corporate culture is important to a company's success. On the flip side to that, 82% of employees said they'd be less likely to leave an...
How To Be INTERACTIVE In A Virtual Presentation
How To Be Interactive In A Virtual PresentationHow To Be Interactive In A Virtual Presentation Three Secrets to Breaking the “Sage-on-the-Stage” Dynamic in a Virtual Presentation My job is most people’s biggest fear: public speaking. I’ve traveled around the world and...
How To Increase Audience Engagement
How to increase audience engagement? This is a question that I get asked fairly often because people will attend one of my keynotes either virtual or in-person and have the experience of like, "Wow, that was so interactive.That was so engaging. How do I do that?"...
How Many People Can You Have On Zoom
How many people can you have in Zoom? Less than this number. And in this video, I'm going to give you the really quick answer because it is different based on which account you have set up. I'll give you the easiest way to find out how many people you can have on...
How To Start A Difficult Conversation At Work
How do you start a difficult conversation at work? You might be here because you've got one that you need to have. You're in the right place. I'm Chad. My co-author and I wrote a book called Ask Powerful Questions Create Conversations That Matter. We used to work with...
How To Get Better At Small Talk
What does everybody have but most people dread? Small talk. You're probably here because you want to get better at small talk and you're in the right place because my name is Chad and my partner in crime and I wrote a book called Ask Powerful Questions Create...