Zoom integrations: improve virtual collaboration with F4S

Amid economic headwinds, it's become more challenging to convince stakeholders, potential customers, or decision makers via virtual meetings and harder to connect with your team. Communicating through a computer screen doesn’t have the same impact or advantages as in-person presentations.

Thankfully, there are solutions. Zoom integrations make convincing and collaborating with partners easier. In this article, you’ll learn how Fingerprint for Success (and other apps) can help you better collaborate with and convince those who matter to align with you and your goals.

What is Zoom?

Zoom (aka Zoom Meetings) is a well-known video conferencing platform. As we know, businesses and remote teams use it to host virtual meetings and online events. Although the software debuted in 2011, it really took off during the 2020 onset of the pandemic. As of 2022, Zoom enjoys a 55.4% share of the worldwide video conferencing market¹.

Zoom integrates with hundreds of handy tools and third-party applications, including Fingerprint for Success. You'll find these apps on the Zoom App Marketplace.

Why use Zoom and Fingerprint for Success?

Fingerprint for Success is one of the most valuable integrations to use with Zoom. Understanding communication-style nuances and decision inputs is key to effective collaboration. Yet very few people are born with the natural aptitude to adapt their work and leadership styles to suit their teams and audiences. In reality, most professionals acquire these soft interpersonal skills over the course of their careers.

The free Fingerprint for Success assessment is a simple and easy way to learn how to best collaborate, guide and convince team members to work efficiently to deliver results, and stay motivated and engaged along the way. By answering a series of questions— and having your colleagues, employees or even your partners do the same— you can tailor your communication and leadership style according to their motivational traits. Taking the assessment will reveal which of the following learning styles optimizes team productivity and performance:

• Visual learning style: Colleagues with a visual learning style need visual inputs to make decisions. They like to see demonstrations, observe presentations, and learn through visuals. Incorporate plenty of of visuals into future Zoom webinars for best results.
• Hearing learning style: Presentations work best for colleagues with a hearing learning style. These stakeholders prefer to listen when taking in information. Remember that when sending out Zoom Meeting links.
• Read/write learning style: The read/write learning style requires text-based communication. These stakeholders prefer to read from a page or screen. Think direct messages, meeting transcripts, and Zoom chats. They have an independent work style, so they aren’t big on meetings.
• Kinesthetic learning style: Kinesthetic learning style stakeholders prefer short, focused meetings. They'd rather make decisions after acquiring first-hand experience. Therefore, keep your Zoom events brief to appeal to these types of people.

When combined with Zoom, Fingerprint for Success will help you manage your stakeholders better during virtual meetings and optimize how well you communicate with and guide your team.

Other great communications and collaboration Zoom apps

Zoom offers thousands of integration options with third-party apps. Let's learn about the best ones for collaborating with and convincing stakeholders and teams.

Slack

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Slack is a popular messaging and communication platform. Businesses use it for text messaging, video and phone calls, and more. One of its best collaborative features is the Slack Workspace. You can use it to create Slack channels (chat rooms and online communities).

Zoom’s Slack integration brings Zoom video conferencing to the platform. When you use the command ‘/zoom’, you can launch Zoom meetings from a Slack channel. Also, Slack's integration with Zoom makes it possible to share your meetings in-platform. For example, you can include a meeting recording link in a direct message or Slack channel.

Read our article on how to optimize your Slack communications for more details.

Asana

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Asana is a project management software tool. Businesses and teams use it for project planning, development, and more. The software provides different views project managers can use to manage projects. Popular ones include lists, timelines, and boards. Asana integrates with more than 200 applications, including Zoom.

Zoom’s Asana integration lets you start a Zoom meeting inside Asana. You can also create Asana tasks inside Zoom during meetings and access Zoom meeting transcripts within Asana.

We dive deeper into Asana project management on our blog.

Calendly

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Calendly is a ‘scheduling automation platform’. Millions of business professionals use it to schedule meetings and other calendar events. A Calendly user can send a scheduling link or embed a calendar in their invitation email. In either case, the calendar shows their available meeting time slots.

When the email's recipient chooses an available date, Calendly automatically schedules the meeting. Their Microsoft or Google calendar will remind them of the meeting as the date draws closer. Calendly’s app for Zoom saves you time by automatically populating your calendar with the Zoom meeting details.

Google Workspace

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Google Workspace comprises Google's popular business tools. Flagship products include Gmail, Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Meet. Combined, these cloud platform applications help with productivity and collaboration tasks.

Zoom’s Google Workspace integration brings meetings to your Google calendar. You can schedule and join meetings easily. It also enhances business workflows by letting teams add events to a shared calendar.

When paired with Zoom, Google's communication and collaboration tools enable teams to work cohesively.

Trello

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Trello is a collaborative task management tool. Remote teams use it to execute team projects in real time. This application draws inspiration from Kanban-style lists. You create a task board with columns that represent the different stages of your project. Project managers can then track a project’s progress as tasks move between the columns.

The Trello Zoom application lets you manage your Trello boards within Zoom chat. You can receive notifications about Trello card changes and comment on cards while using Zoom.

Curious about Trello? Here’s our deep dive into the Trello Project Management tool.

ClickUp

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ClickUp is a collaborative whiteboard platform and project management tool. It has several features for communication, collaboration, and project management. Business teams get a range of ‘views’ or visualization methods for their projects that enhance the user experience. Popular ones include calendar and Kanban-style boards.

ClickUp's Zoom integration lets users create Zoom meetings from a ClickUp task. You can do that by pushing Zoom's meeting button or using the ‘/Zoom’ command.

GitHub

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GitHub provides internet hosting services for software developers. The platform hosts thousands of open-source software development projects. More than 100 million developers have projects on it as of January 2023². It's also the largest source code host in the world.

Repositories are a central concept of GitHub. They’re what allow developers to collaborate remotely. GitHub hosts millions of them.

GitHub’s Zoom integration allows you to receive Zoom Team chat messages and notifications from your GitHub repository.

Frequently asked questions‍

How many apps does Zoom integrate with?

Zoom is no stranger to integrations. The app integrates with close to 2,500 third-party apps.

Are Zoom integrations free?

Zoom has free and paid integrations. For example, the Fingerprint for Success Zoom application is free.‍

How do I remove the Fingerprint for Success app from Zoom?

Sign into your Zoom account and navigate to the marketplace. Click ‘Manage’ then ‘Added Apps’. Search for ‘F4S App for Zoom’, click on the app icon, then click ‘Remove’.

What is the best app to use for Zoom?

It depends on your productivity and collaboration needs. There are several excellent choices. For example, you can use Trello and Zoom for project management. ClickUp is excellent for whiteboard collaboration. F4S optimizes team communication and productivity. Google’s suite of products also works well with Zoom.

Understanding communication styles

Everyone has a unique way of consuming information. The Fingerprint for Success app focuses on four communication styles:

• Visual
• Oral
• Written
• Experiential

Incorporate Fingerprint for Success into your Zoom video meetings to accommodate each style. When you and your Zoom meeting participants install the app, you’ll see your team members’ or partners’ assessment results – providing you with invaluable insight into how best to communicate with them.

F4S Zoom integrations

The win-win benefits

Using the Fingerprint for Success Zoom integration provides one powerful benefit: insight. The app displays actionable insights about your colleagues during Zoom calls. You'll see each attendee's communication style, allowing you to adapt your messaging accordingly.

This additional functionality enhances the Zoom experience by promoting thoughtful communication and ensures frictionless virtual team collaboration.

How to connect Zoom with Fingerprint for Success?

Here's how to navigate the Zoom Marketplace to find the Fingerprint for Success app:

1. Visit the Zoom Marketplace.

2. Enter ‘F4S’ into the search bar at the top of the screen:

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You’ll see the app in a drop-down menu as the only option. Click on F4S in the drop-down.

3. Click on the blue ‘Sign in to Add’ button:

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4. Sign in and take the mini F4S assessment (four questions).

5. Your top two communication style emojis will be added to your Zoom background.

6. Invite your Zoom meeting attendees to install F4S for Zoom, so you can see their communication style. Then you can adapt your communication to suit their preferences.