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By June 2020, videoconferencing had been fully embraced and entrenched in corporate America. According to a survey conducted by Demand Metric in the spring of that year, 95% of respondents reported using video meetings regularly for work, with 87% of them saying they use it more than ever before. However, the accelerated adoption due to work from home, travel restrictions, and social distancing has not been without some speedbumps (Metric 2020).

A full 94% of those who were engaging in virtual video meetings encountered barriers in using the tools effectively. The top three were video quality issues, video call fatigue, and technical issues (with keeping people's attention a close fourth). Furthermore, even if they manage to overcome the barriers, very few people have been trained on how to optimize those meetings. As it turns out, following meeting science and video communication best practices can go a long way in making virtual meetings work. We will look at both in Section 2 (The Meeting Scientist Perspective) and Section 3 (The On‐Camera Coach Perspective).