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Zoom calls on phone5/20/2023 Another study showed that participants made fewer mistakes on phone calls, compared with text-only and video communications. The drop in our performance isn’t imaginary: An analysis of video interviews compared with in-person interviews conducted by scholars at George Washington University revealed that people tended to be evaluated less favorably when they appeared via video compared with in person. “Paying more attention to these consumes a lot of energy.” On platforms like Zoom, “we need to work harder to process non-verbal cues like facial expressions, the tone and pitch of the voice, and body language,” Gianpiero Petriglieri, an associate professor of organizational behaviour at INSEAD, told the BBC earlier this year. “Especially in an intro call” - which ours was - “a phone call is a way to relax and be yourself, without having to focus on your appearance or the screen.” “It can be exhausting to be onscreen - looking at yourself and feeling like your posture has to be a certain way - it can distract from the core business,” Whitted said. But Whitted also is aware of what it takes to appear on screen - she called it “TV anchor energy” - and that it isn’t always helpful to ask yourself and others to draw upon it. I had assumed that Whitted, who is comfortable around cameras in a way that few non-television professionals are, would prefer to talk screen-to-screen. Instead of exchanging a Zoom link, Whitted, a long-time producer of reality television shows including HGTV and a California-grown version of “Shark Tank,” asked for my phone number. Old-school phone calls can do the trick.Ī few days ago, when I was making arrangements to talk with Terisa Whitted, a Bay Area–based television producer and consultant on the production of Socio’s Event Hack Hybrid Games, Whitted surprised me. Videoconferencing and one-on-one video chats have their upsides, but they don’t have to be the only way you communicate.
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