Love it or hate it, there is no denying that video conferencing is an integral part of the modern office.
Once, a novel way to conduct meetings, video conferencing is now the meeting style of choice for businesses around the world.
Powered by ever faster connection speeds and the rise of mobile, this is a trend that shows no sign of slowing down.
As you prepare for your next video conference, here are 5 handy tips and tricks that we use everyday here at Lark, so that you can take your video conferencing game to the next level.
1. Check your equipment beforehand
To make video conferencing work, you need two things: a mic and and a camera. Fortunately, today’s work devices often have both built right in.
It’s never nice to start a meeting only to waste precious time fiddling with settings so take a few minutes and check, either in Lark itself or on your device settings to make sure that people can see and hear you.
2. Use chat to get prep work sorted
As soon as the video conference invite is sent out, create a Lark group chat within the invite and keep everyone involved up to date on the meeting’s agenda, key points and other relevant information.
This helps to cut down on the dreaded “Why are we having this meeting?” syndrome and helps bring focus to your video conference.
3. Get everyone on the Same Page with Lark docs
For maximum efficiency, create a Lark Doc for your video conference, straight from the meeting invite.
Lark Docs are able to create robust, rich documents combining tables, images, checklists, videos and basically anything you need, right on a single page that you can edit and collaborate on in real-time.
4. The mute button is your friend
There are few things as annoying as getting on a video call and hearing the background noises of 50 other people.
Do yourself and your team a favour and mute your mic if you aren’t the one speaking. Most video conferencing solutions, such as Lark, have in built mic mute functions that make this a breeze.
5. Pay attention and avoid multi-tasking
Try not to check your emails, answer texts or work on other tasks.
Feel an increase in the quality of your participation and reduction of miscommunication when you focus on the call at hand.
To learn more about how Lark can help you get the best Video Conferencing experience possible, click here.
