This week I was telling colleagues, clients and friends about the trends in senior leader training, I’d been hearing about. Especially those deep soft elements that help presenters with engagement in hybrid, virtual or online meetings. There has been a lot discussed about the importance of backgrounds when you are doing an online meeting, especially if you are a senior in the organisation. Interestingly in the middle of one of the meetings I was asked about my own bookshelf and they pointed to one of my lights and it started a nice ice breaking warming conversation.
I understand why this is happening. I often get asked about my bookshelf style in wonder. Some think its one of those generic backgrounds or that I am in a very swanky part of the HQ that no one has ever seen. Little so they know that it is through using my old film studies scholar hat, I made the connection of how we still turn to the dramatic arts and cinematography in organisation life. And how this part of the cultural sphere can help us to understand how best to convey the identities that we want with clever use of props (our own home office decor). A WebEx, Zoom, Go To Meeting screen is no different to the big silver screen. It’s just smaller and because you are the central actor the mise-en-scene should convey more about who you are.
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Home Office Charm 
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